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Arab Chess – painting by Sir Lawrence a thousand-year-old chess problem

Puzzles: a thousand-year-old chess problem

9.9.2013 - Chess was invented around 570 A.D. in the north-eastern part of India. The Arabs brought it to Europe in the 9th Century, also introducing the first "mansuba” – middle or endgame puzzles with well-defined tasks. There were often stories and legends surrounding them, one of the best known being "Dilaram’s mate”. We re-narrate this tale and give you one of the oldest recorded chess problems to solve.

A thousand-year-old chess problem

By Frederic Friedel

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Blaise Pascal/ Blaise Pascal (French: [blɛz paskal]; 19 June 1623 – 19 August 1662)

Blaise Pascal /  File:Blaise pascal.jpg/Pascal's major contribution to the philosophy of mathematics/

De l'Esprit géométrique ("Of the Geometrical Spirit"), originally written as a preface to a geometry textbook for one of the famous "Petites-Ecoles de Port-Royal" ("Little Schools of Port-Royal")

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