Sir Lancelot is giving
Queen Guenievre a magic cChessboard. Illumination XIII century.
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2011/03/25
A Royal Game
The German emperor Otto IV playing chess with a woman. An illumination from the famous Manesse codex (1305–1340) showing that chess was always a royal game.
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