Semedo ( la, Semedo) — a
variant of chess, presumably invented by
Álvaro Semedo
Álvaro de Semedo (Latinized form: Alvarus de Semedo; , ''Zeng Dezhao'', earlier 謝務祿 ''Xie Wulu'') (1585 or 1586,. Mungello quotes sources for both 1585 and 1586 as Semedo's date of birth. - 18 July 1658), was a Portuguese Jesuit priest and ...
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Description
Some
chess historians
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Chess historians
*Yuri Averbakh
* Henry Bird
* Ricardo Calvo (October 22, 1943 – September 26, 2002)
* Hiram Cox
* G. H. Diggle
*David Vincent Hooper
*Willard Fiske
*Professor Duncan Forbes
* Jeremy Gaige
* ...
dispute the existence of such chess in general. Supposedly invented by a
Jesuit missionary in China, Álvaro Semedo. Subsequently, other Catholic missionaries in
China reported a special Chinese chess called "semedo". A description of this game in
latin
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is given in a book published in 1694 in
England
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.
Board
Initial semedo alignment (♔ ♚ — kings, ♕ ♛ — scientists, ♘ ♞ — knights, ♙ ♟ — pawns, ◬ ⟁ — rockets):
References
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External links
Rules Semedo (chess)The Meeting of Shen Fuzong and Thomas Hyde in 1687 A Lecture for the Oxford Bibliographical Society, 1 March 2010.
Chess variants
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