..."If evidence be required to prove that Chess was invented by the Hindus, we may be satisfied with tho testimony of the Persians, who, though as much inclined...nations to appropriate the ingenious inventions of other people, unanimously agree that the game was imported from the west of India." Mr. Bland then...

...If evidence were required to prove this fact, we may be satisfied with the testimony of the Fenians, who, though as much inclined as other nations to appropriate the ingenious inventions of foreign people, unanimously agree that the game was imported from the west of India, in the sixth century...

...CHESS. BY SIR WILLIAM JONES. IP evidence be required to prove that Chess was invented by the Hindus, we may be satisfied with the testimony of the Persians...a foreign people, unanimously agree that the game of Chess was imported from the West of India, together with the charming Fables of VISHNUSARMAN, in...

...Hindoos, on the authority of the Persians, who unanimously agree that it was imported into their country from the west of India in the sixth century of our era ; and he traces the successive corruptions of the original Sanscrit term, through the Persians and...

...between cards and chess : " If evidence be required to prove that chess was invented by the Hindus, we may be satisfied with the testimony of the Persians...that the game was imported from the west of India, together with the charming fables of Vishnusarman in the sixth century of our era. It seems to have...

...that the game was imported from the west of India, together with the charming fables of Vishnusarman in the sixth century of our era. It seems to have been immemorially known in Hindustan by the name of Chatur-anga, that is the FOUR angas, or members of an army, which are said,...

...•was said in 1791. ARL Athenaeum. CHESS AMONG THE MALAYS (5th S. vi. 346, 454, 519 ; viL 58.)— " We may be satisfied with the testimony of the Persians,...from the west of India in the sixth century of our aera. It seems to have been immemorially known in Hindostan by the name of Chcttwanga, ie the four...

...William Jones, who says, " If evidence be required to prove that chess was invented by the Hindus, -we may be satisfied with the testimony of the Persians;...nations to appropriate the ingenious inventions of other people, unanimously agree that the game was imported from the West of India," &c.' Now we have...

...Persians, who, though as much inclined as other nations to appropriate ingenious inventions to themselves, unanimously agree that the game was imported from...the west of India in the sixth century of our era." The same author tells us that though he had found no account of the game among the classical writings...

...quoting from Sir William Jones, "If evidence be required to prove that Chess was invented by the Hindus, we may be satisfied with the testimony of the Persians,...nations to appropriate the ingenious inventions of other people, unanimously agree that the game was imported from the west of India." Mr. Bland then...