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Foreword
by Prof. Chimen Abramsky
Preface
1
Introduction
Overview
Sir Thomas Hyde: The Book of Oriental Games
The Influence of Hyde
Moritz Steinschneider: Chess Among the Jews
2 Chess
and Other Games in the Talmud
Texts and Commentaries
Firdausi and the Shahnama
'Alexander's Game'
An Enigmatic Board Game
3 The
Jewish 'Golden Age': Chess in Medieval Spain
Arab and Jew
Moses Cohen: Disciplina Clericalis
Judah Halevi: Ha-Kuzari
Abraham Ibn Ezra: Verses on the Game of Chess
The Chess Poem of Bonsenior Ibn Yehia
Chess and Society — and Gambling
The Alphonso Manuscript
The Chess Manuscript of Abu Zachariya Jahja Ben Ibrahim Al-Hakim
The New Chess: Luis de Lucena and Ruy Lopez
Postscript
4 Chess
and Jewish Literature: The Post-Renaissance Period
The Anonymous Treatise The Delight of Kings
Chess and Morals: Some Further Views
Two Stories from the Ma'aseh Book
Moses Mendelssohn and Lessing's Nathan the Wise
Zevi Uri Rubinstein: Limudei ha'iyuni vehama'asi
bedarchei haschok hanikra Schachspiel
Leon Hollaenderski: Delices Royales
Jacob Eichenbaum: The Struggle
Chronological Table
Landmarks of Chess Literature
Bibliography
Appendix
Four Hebrew Works on Chess
Abraham Ibn Ezra, 'Verses on the Game of Chess'
Bonsenior Ibn Yehia, Chess Poem
Zevi Uri Rubinstein, Limudei ha'iyuni vehama'asi
Jacob Eichenbaum, The Struggle
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