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TheBone1

What is the earliest known documented (notated) chess game?

NimzoRoy

Did anyone ever mention you look like Jackie Gleason? 

As for your question, beats the hell outta me...maybe one of these sources will help

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_chess

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_chess

http://www.cln.org/searching_faqs.html

Kens_Mom

Libro de los Juegos (1283) has chess, though I'm not sure if it has entire games.  From the looks of the wiki article, they may have just diagrams, i.e. not notated.  Also, because the book is so old, it may not be chess with modern rules.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libro_de_los_juegos

Aside from that, there's Pedro Damiano's Questo libro e da imparare giocare a scachi et de li partiti, 1512.