Libro de los juegos
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The Libro de los juegos, or Libro de axedrez, dados e tablas, is a 13th century Spanish treatise of chess that synthesizes the information from Arabic works on this same topic, dice and tables games,
The game of astronomical tables, from Libro de los juegos
A black man and a white man playing chess
Chess problem #35
Two North African men solving chess problem #25
Alfonso X of Castile
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Alfonso X was King of Castile, León and Galicia from 1 June 1252 until his death in 1284. During the election of 1257, a dissident faction chose him to be king of Germany on 1 April. He renounced his
Libro de los juegos
…treatise of chess that synthesizes the information from Arabic works on this same topic, dice and tables (backgammon forebears) games, commissioned by Alfonso X of Castile, Galicia and León and completed in his scriptorium in Toledo in 1283. It contains the earliest European treatise on chess as well as being…
Portrait of Alfonso X from the Libro de los juegos (1283)
Portrait of Alfonso X from the codex Tumbo 'A' de Santiago (Dated between 1229 and 1255)
Castillian ambassadors meeting Almohad caliph Abu Hafs Umar al-Murtada, from the Cantigas de Santa María
Equestrian seal of Alfonso X of Castile