Studies Of Chess
William Jones
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Studies Of Chess

Containing Caissa, A Poem; Volume 1

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Studies of Chess is a collection of essays and poems by Sir William Jones, an eighteenth-century British scholar and linguist. The book includes a long poem called Caissa, which is an allegory of the game of chess. Caissa tells the story of the creation of the game and the mythical queen who presides over it. The volume also includes several essays on the history and theory of chess, as well as linguistic studies of the game's terminology. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the ...