Chess History

Does anyone know the history of Chess before the 1800's? Or can anyone recommend any good books?

yep

http://www.goddesschess.com/ is a good website. I found it in the footnotes to The Immortal Game by David Shenk, which has some of the history you're looking for. The standard work is H.J.R. Murray, A History of Chess (1913).

I found Marilyn Yalom's The Birth of the Chess Queen a good read, and she is a careful historian.

The Immortal Game book would be a good source by itself. I read through almost the entire thing in a single day.

I found an article on 'The Earliest Evidence of Chess in Western Literature: The Einsiedeln Verses' by Helena M. Gamer (Speculum, vol. 29, no. 4, pp. 734-750). It was written in 1954.

The footnotes might lead you to more books :-).

Originally posted by Wulebgr

The standard work is H.J.R. Murray, A History of Chess (1913).

http://www.cpl.org/ search "chess history"

thx for all your help

So who is the inventor? Milton Bradley?

Originally posted by nihilismor
So who is the inventor? Milton Bradley?