THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO CHESS PIECES

The Definitive Guide to Chess Pieces

Through the early 18th century till the 1830s the East India Enterprise imported lavishly carved chessmen in red and white ivory, the opposing sides being the company and Indians. Rajas and viziers have been represented by laden elephants, People with the rajas bearing howdahs; company knights rode horses, and the Indians were mounted on dromedarie

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