Birth Of The Chess Queen: A History by Marilyn Yalom, Marilyn Yalom

Birth Of The Chess Queen: A History

Marilyn Yalom, Marilyn Yalom

304 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

fiction history adventurous informative slow-paced
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The queen, now the most potent piece on the board, surprisingly did not exist in the early days of chess in India, Persia and the Near East. She was born around 1000 AD in Europe, but by 1497, when Isabella of Castile ruled over Spain and much of ...

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