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  • As the title Sopra il giuoco degli scacchi osservazioni pratiche d'anonimo autore Modenese suggests, he was pretending to be an anonymous Modenese author.

    Lubomir Kavalek: Chess Puzzles: Imagination Breeds Creativity Lubomir Kavalek 2010

  • As the title Sopra il giuoco degli scacchi osservazioni pratiche d'anonimo autore Modenese suggests, he was pretending to be an anonymous Modenese author.

    Lubomir Kavalek: Chess Puzzles: Imagination Breeds Creativity Lubomir Kavalek 2010

  • Esistono lame pneumatico del convincerlo degli scacchi.

    Quote of the Day II 2009

  • Some version of the story was known to Dante, since he refers to it in the Paradiso (XXVIII, 92-93) to describe the abundance of Heaven's lights: eran tante, che ˜l numero loro più che ˜l doppiar degli scacchi s'immilla.

    Recursive Functions Odifreddi, Piergiorgio 2005

  • Thus has a very significant word in the sacred language of the Brahmans been transferred by successive changes into axedres, scacchi, echecs, chess and by a whimsical concurrence of circumstances given birth to the English word check, and even a name to the Exchequer of Great Britain!

    Chess History and Reminiscences 1869

  • Dovrebbe trattarsi di una scacchiera, perche nella scansia inferiore, vicino a dei libri, sono sparsi alcuni pezzi del gioco degli scacchi (si riconoscono una torre e un alfiere) (Through the latticework of the cabinet door one catches a glimpse of a small gridiron tablet.

    Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

  • “Nell’imparare a giocare a scacchi, ricorda sempre che il tuo principale avversario non sono i pezzi, ma colui che li muove.”

    No Fat Clips!!! : ANDREI BAKHURIN – The White, The Black 2008

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