Vasily Smyslov, former World Chess Champ
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Smyslov and father
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Napoleon plays Cornwallis cartoon
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Russian chessplayers
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Windsor family gamers
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Ivan the Terrible plays one last game of chess, then dies
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Afrasiah chessmen from 7th century Uzbekistan
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Chess player in gamer style
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WW I cartoon
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De Ludo Scachorum (The Game of Chess), about 1500, by Luca Pacioli,
a Franciscan friar and Renaissance mathematician who was a friend and collaborator
of Leonardo da Vinci. One of the earliest chess books, it contains 114 diagrams of chess problems drawn in red and black.
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