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of this composition is given variously: the twelfth century or, according to Steinschneider, the fourteenth or fifteenth. The remarkable feature is that the game is mainly described by a combination and adaptation of Biblical texts.

Paragraph 9. In the thirteenth century the Alfyn had the diagonal move of our Bishop, restricted in its range of action to the third square from which it stood. (From the Chess Player's Chronicle, vol. iii, p. 63.) Steinschneider's date would appear to be in conflict with this fact.