Playing chess after 30 year absence. Love the game, Major Chess.com fan. "Chess, moreover, being well established in time, enjoys a considerable history and literature ...having originated in some part of Asia as a war game.' (p. 10). 'In England, Chess was well known in Shakespeare's time ... and popular in court circles'. 'Chess is completely communicable' because it is 'describable in notation'. (P. 11). Source: "Chess", Abrahams, Gerald; 1st ed., 1948; this edition 1975).
'The philosopher Mendelssohn gave up chess because he found it too serious to be a game and not serious enough to be an occupation'. (Abrahams, p. v)
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