... with living pieces and pawns, and life has been the stake. The name is supposed to have been derived originally from the Persian Shah. In giving • brief outline of the history of come, it may be remarked that though kings and queens have often played ...

... still further altered it into shatranj, which is the Persian word of to-day for a square. Our word chess comae from the Persian Shah (king) which is used among the Arabs and Persians in the same sense as our word check. In actual play when the king is ...