Sonja MUSSER GOLLADAY

Tracing the Origins of Checkmate Patterns and Paths in Alfonso X’s Libro de los juegos

Published in Games from Antiquity to Baroque

Keywords: Keywords: Alfonso X the Wise, Checkmate Pattern, Chess, Libro de los juegos, Libro del acedrex, Retrograde Problem Analysis, Shatranj.

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The present study interrogates Alfonso X’s bibliographic sources through his chess problems’ checkmates and move patterns.