Tables, Chess -- On the Explanation of Chess and Backgammon

Games: Tables, Chess (History, Transcription, Translation, Facsimile)

Sources:

A medieval Persian source, describing how Chess came to Persia and how "backgammon" (games within the Tables) was invented.

Ancient Iran Series 2, from the Jordan Center for Persian Studies

Quite a nice little book, including several facsimiles of period sources as well as the transcription and translation of one of them, and considerable framing material.

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