Chess for Beginners: Know the Rules, Choose Your Strategy, and Start Winning
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Sloppy. The actual date is closer to 1475.
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Recent history. Lacks sufficient historical perspective for the claim “greatest”
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Really? Always? England and France were long considered the top countries, and before that Spain and Italy.
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More bad history. They resemble bishops. Surely the author knows of their history as elephants in many countries.
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If the description says L, the image should match.
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Contradicts assertion earlier in the book concerning the center
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The time and place of the introduction of the rule suggests a different reason.
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27 years, not 27-time
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Edward Lasker played this game, not Emanuel