...the 6th .century, during the reign of Chosroe's the Great. " The Persians," says Sir William Jones, " though as much inclined as other nations to appropriate...a foreign people, unanimously agree, that the game (of chess) was imported from the west of India, together with the charming fables of Vitfinasarman,...

...CHESS, BY THE PRESIDENT. TF evidence be required to prove that chess was inA vented by the , Hindus, we may be satisfied with the testimony of the Persians;...much inclined as other nations to appropriate the ingeaious inventions of a foreign people, uaanimously agree, that the game was imported from the west...

...Jones, this game is of Hindoo invention. ' If evidence were required to prove this fact,' says he,* ' we may be satisfied with the testimony of the Persians,...imported from the west of India in the sixth century of * Asiatic Kenearches, vol. ii. mem. ix. our era. It seems to have been immemorially known in Hindostan...

...was said in 1791. ARL Athenaeum. CHESS AMONG THE MALAYS (5 th S. vi. 346,454, 519 ; vii. 58.)— " We may be satisfied with the testimony of the Persians,...unanimously agree that the game was imported from the wfit of India in the sixth century of our cera. It seems to have been immemorial!? known in Hindostán...