... gal tine for new distractions, and the visit of the King of Siam will be scarcely lees interesting than was the of the Persian Shah. Is not his Majesty the Lord of the White Elephant by title? Although he will probably not bring in his suite one of ...

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