CHESS.

Bruce Herald, Volume XXXXI, Issue 50, 27 June 1905, Page 2

CHESS.

Excavations at Sakhara in Egypt nave brought to light a> wall-painting in which two men are play:ng chess in the time of King Teta, whose reign Professor Brug?ch puts at the ypar 33 b.o. The game evidently is thousand!" of years older than has been supposed. It was thought to have been introduce i into India from Persia by the Aral* in the sixth century a.d. - \