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Ancient chess problems to solve
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I do this mainly to provoke chess historians who search for ancient predecessors of the game, in China and in Egypt.
Chess moved from India to Arabia, and when the Arabs stormed Europe in the 9th century they brought the game with them.
In the Fireside Book by F. Reinfeld and I. Chernev write: Do you believe in reincarnation of chess ideas?
Full details of this remarkable claim are to be found in chess historian Edward Winter's article Chess Reincarnation.
In the above position, his wife called out to him: "Oh Prince, sacrifice your rooks and not your wife."
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