Birth of the Chess Queen: A History by Marilyn Yalom

Birth of the Chess Queen: A History

Marilyn Yalom

320 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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Everyone knows that the queen is the most dominant piece in chess, but few people know that the game existed for five hundred years without her. It wasn't until chess became a popular pastime for European royals during the Middle Ages that the que...

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