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Imperial Purple Chess Game

28 Friday Oct 2016

Posted by Annina Luck in Uncategorized

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Anna Komnene, chess, history, illustration, imperial, purple, The Alexiad

 

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THE earliest European writer who mentions chess is the Byzantine princess and historian, Anna Komnene, of Constantinople. She calls the game Zatrikion, and says that the Greeks derived it from the Babylonians; and that her father, Alexios loved to play. So here she is learning from her father!

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