Chess -- The Beginnings of Chess
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An in-depth academic paper analyzing the sources, with an eye towards figuring out where Chess came from.
I found this via a
critical analysis by Cazaux, in which he offers some commentary and corrections but largely concludes that this is a pretty authoritative paper on the subject.
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