Of all the claims which have been advanced to the invention and
origin of chess, that of the Hindu Game the Chaturanga is the most
ancient, and its accounts contain the earliest allusion worthy of
serious notice to anything partaking of the principles and form of
chess. The description of it is taken from the Sanskrit text, and
our first knowledge of it is obtained through the works of Dr.
Hyde, 1693, and Sir William Jones, 1784, Professor Duncan Forbes in
a History of Chess, dedicated to Sir Frederic Madden and Howard
Staunton, published in 1860, further elaborated the researches of
his predecessors and claims by the aid of his better acquaintance
with chess, and improved knowledge of the Sanskrit to have proved
the Chaturanga as the first form of chess beyond a shadow of doubt.
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