... by some authorities to Palamedes. a Grecian hero of the Trojan war, about 1080 p.c. The word chess is derived from the Persian shah, king: and checkmate, or shalunat, means king confounded or overcome. But not only in Persian but in Sanscrit and other ...

... a sum of nearly five thousand pounds in order to give them a fitting reception. We have seen an EOptiari Khedive and a Persian Shah in our capital . before, the former being 'the grandfather and' the latter the father the present ruler ; and no, pains ...