CHESS - SCHACH - ECHECS ISTANBUL - TURKEY - ITALY - BOLOGNA "Quarta etas mundi - Xerses ph'us" Xerxes (the Great) playing chess. Woodcut Published in "Nuremberg Chronicle" (Schedelsche Weltchronik) Latin edition By Hartmann Schedel (1440-1514) Nuremberg, 1493 This may well be the oldest printed image of a a chess game! Also on this page: Portraits of the Babylonian kings Merodach and Nebukadnezar. A view of Byzantium / Byzanz - Today: Istanbul Reverse side: View of Bononia = Bologna in Italy

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CHESS - SCHACH - ECHECS

ISTANBUL - TURKEY - ITALY - BOLOGNA

"Quarta etas mundi - Xerses ph'us"

Xerxes (the Great) playing chess.

Woodcut

Published in "Nuremberg Chronicle" (Schedelsche Weltchronik)

Latin edition

By Hartmann Schedel (1440-1514)

Nuremberg, 1493

This may well be the oldest printed image of a a chess game!

Also on this page: Portraits of the Babylonian kings Merodach and Nebukadnezar.

A view of Byzantium / Byzanz - Today: Istanbul

Reverse side: View of Bononia = Bologna in Italy

General age toning. Lower right corner (respectively: Lower left corner, as seen from the reverse side of print) has an century old replacement repair of missing margin corner. Other minor traces of age and use.

Measurements:

Chess - Xerxes playing chess: 7,5 x 5,5 cm (ca. 3 x 2.2")

Istambul (Byzantium / Byzanz): 17,9 x 16,7 cm (7 x 6.6")

Bologna (Bolonia): 19,9 x 22,5 cm (ca. 7.8 x 8.9")
Chess is a board game related to games such as xiangqi. abstract strategy game; chessboard; one king, one queen, two rooks, two knights, two bishops, and eight pawns.