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... chess and puzzles of spatial relationships . The element of chance has also played an important part in games . Roman children and adults threw knucklebones , the precursors of dice . Dice , in turn , are essential tools for a host of ...
... chess and puzzles of spatial relationships . The element of chance has also played an important part in games . Roman children and adults threw knucklebones , the precursors of dice . Dice , in turn , are essential tools for a host of ...
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... Chess Player , fraudulent mechanical device built in the 18th century , was actually operated by a concealed man . Vonnegut , Kurt , Jr. ( b . Nov. 11 , 1922 , In- dianapolis , Ind . ) , novelist who in the 1960s emerged as probably the ...
... Chess Player , fraudulent mechanical device built in the 18th century , was actually operated by a concealed man . Vonnegut , Kurt , Jr. ( b . Nov. 11 , 1922 , In- dianapolis , Ind . ) , novelist who in the 1960s emerged as probably the ...
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... Chess Federation : see Fédération Internationale des Échecs . World Confederation for Physical Ther- apy ( WCPT ) , an international organization founded in 1951 at Copenhagen for the pur- pose of encouraging improved standards for ...
... Chess Federation : see Fédération Internationale des Échecs . World Confederation for Physical Ther- apy ( WCPT ) , an international organization founded in 1951 at Copenhagen for the pur- pose of encouraging improved standards for ...
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