MDT Ep. 61: Concerning the Invention of Chess
Medieval Death Trip - A podcast by Medieval Death Trip
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We kick off a holiday miniseries of chess lore from William Caxton's The Game and the Playe of the Chesse with one version of how chess was invented. We then some historical corrections to this account and also hear one of the earliest written accounts of chess, the Persian Chatrang-namak.
