The Origin of the Checkers and Modern chess Game. Volume II - 300 pages

The Origin of the Checkers and Modern Chess Game. Volume II - 300 pages ISBN:   978-0-244-04257-8            -       2017 I shall briefly describe the second volume of the first part of this book, whose chapters I have tried to write in a simple style. The  ancient word "trecha",  that years afterwards was  converted into " treta",...

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The new powerful dama in the origin of the draughts and modern chess game

The purpose of this blog is to facilitate you several books about the history of draughts. Please have a look on the menu for those books (in English). For example, you can also download the following book in Dutch of 1997, that has an introduction of 9 lenguages, among them the following text in English: THE  INFLUENCE  OF  THE  QUEEN ISABEL  LA  CATOLICA  ON  THE  NEW  POWERFUL  DAMA ...

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