1148.—Circular Chess Board (Cotton MS. and Strutt.) details |
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| Image title: | 1148.—Circular Chess Board (Cotton MS. and Strutt.) | |
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| Source: | Knight, Charles: “Old England: A Pictorial Museum” (1845) | |
| Place shown: | none | |
| Keywords: | games, chess, greyscale | |
| Status: | public domain in the USA, out of copyright in Canada, hence royalty-free stock image for all purposes and no usage credit required | |
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Doesn’t look like any game of chess I’ve seen. Maybe the King goes on the “square” marked 1, the Queen on 2, the bishops on 3, the knights on 4 and the rooks on 5, with 6 being the pawns? Variants such as this (if it is in fact a chess-board) are sometimes called Fairy Chess. Let me know if you try this! |
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| Filename: | 1148-Circular-Chess-Board-q75-500x495.jpg | |
| Blog link: | http://www.fromoldbooks.org/OldEngland/pages/1148-Circular-Chess-Board//1148-Circular-Chess-Board-q75-500x495.jpg | |
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$Id: mkgallery,v 1.64 2008/01/02 04:05:10 lee Exp lee $
Added by alice on Tue Jun 17 10:46:50 2008
I thought you might want to tag this as chess, even though it’s not a traditional chess board. amazing site, thanks
Added by Liam on Tue Jun 17 19:16:00 2008
Thanks—I have done so!