Wilkinson, Charles K., & Jessie McNab Dennis
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
1968
English
PDF
170 pages
A brief history of chess with hundreds of photos of chess pieces throughout the ages.

An exhibition ... shown at the Brooklyn Museum from April to October, 1968, sponsored by that museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Table of contents
Introduction

Early Pieces

Indian Sets

Indo-Chinese Sets

Chinese Sets

Japanese Sets

Near Eastern Sets

Military Oppositions

Ideological Oppositions

Fanciful Oppositions

American History

Conventional and Abstract Sets

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