Chess History and Reminiscences
by Henry Edward Bird
1893
ISBN/ASIN: 1606208977
Number of pages: 195
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This little work is but a condensation and essence of a much larger one, containing the result of what can be discovered concerning the origin and history of chess, combined with some of my own reminiscences of 46 years past both of chess play and its exponents...
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