Word: shahiludium
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...Caxton translated and printed as "The Game and Playe of the Chesse"--the second book printed in England. There is also a learned work in Latin and Hebrew by Thomas Hyde, professor of Oriental languages at Oxford at the close of the seventeenth century. The Widener copy of this "Shahiludium" is of the extremely rare edition of 1689. No copy of this edition appears in the standard bibliography on the subject or in any of the great collections of chess books...
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