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Evidence for Ferses
3 pieces of evidence found.
Id DLP.Evidence.1619
Type Contemporary text
Location 37°23'21.33"N, 5°59'1.50"W
Date 1020-01-01 - 1067-12-31
Rules Pieces move forward one space diagonally.
Content "ferses..the first being in an Arabic anthology of poems written by the Moors of Spain, the Kitab al-mutrib min ash'ar ahl al-Maghrib, compiled by the philologist, ibn Dihya...This work includes a list of the works of...ibn Sharaf, among which is his work on games, with the game farisia, which means the player's queen (malika, wherewith one plays as with the chess, which work belongs to the most remarkable productions of the period." Murray 1951: 74.
Confidence 100
Ages Adult
Social status Elite
Genders Male
Source Murray, H.J.R. 1951. A History of Board-Games Other Than Chess. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Id DLP.Evidence.1620
Type Contemporary text
Location 50°36'20.30"N, 3°23'16.55"E
Date 1242-01-01 - 1272-12-31
Rules Pieces may be promoted.
Content "Cis n'estoit mie rois de gas, Ne rois de fierges, ne d'escas, Ains iert à droit fins rois entirs, Rubins, esmeraude et safirs." 23617-20 in Chronique Rimée of Philippe Mouskes: de Reiffenberg 1838: 423.
Confidence 100
Ages Adult
Social status Elite
Genders Male
Source de Reiffenberg, B. 1838. Chronique rimée de Philippe Mouskes. Brussels: M. Hayez.
Id DLP.Evidence.1621
Type Contemporary text
Location 51°29'54.44"N, 0° 7'35.38"W
Date 1369-01-01 - 1369-12-31
Rules Twelve pieces per player. Players lose when all of their pieces are taken.
Content "Alas! I couthe ne lenger pleye, But seyde, farwel, swete, y-wis, And farwel al that ever ther is...Thogh ye had lost the ferses twelve...But there is noon a-lyve here Wolde for a fers maken this wo!" Chaucer's Book of the Dutchess 617-748.
Confidence 100
Ages Adult
Social status Elite
Genders Male
Source Chaucer, G. 1369. Book of the Dutchess.
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