Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1895 — Chess. [ARTICLE]

Chess.

In the course of excavations on the pyramid-field at Sakhara, there has been brought to light a wall painting on which is portrayed a high official playing chess with an opponent—a-very thin mam Tbe walT painting belongs to the time of King Teta, of the sixth dynasty, which Lepsius has assigned to about 2700 B. C.; but Prof. Brugsch, with new evidence before him, has put it back to about 3300 B. C. Like very many other games, the origin of chess is lost in antiquity; but there has heretofore been no evidence-of such a remote antiquity as this. In very early times a kind of chess was played by the races in Hindustan, by Whom it was believed to have been gradually carried to Persia. Then the Arabs became acquainted with it, and carried it towards the West, so on to England, where the game was being played at the time of the Norman invasion.