A History of Chess
A History of Chess
A History of Chess, Jerzy Giƶycki, 375 p.
An extremely comprehensive and very readable history of chess with a lot of illustrations and artwork, also depicting various historical chess sets and patterns.
The book was first published under the original title "Z Szachami Przez Wieki i Kraje" in 1960 in Polish by "Sport i Turystyka" in Warsaw. It was later translated into English and edited by B.H.Wood
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