“THE BESTE GAME OF ALLE”: PLAYING CHESS WITH FORTUNE ...

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1 David Shenk, The Immortal Game: A History of Chess (New York: Random House, 2006), 15.
2 Guillemette Bolens and Paul Beekman Taylor, “The Game of Chess in Chaucer's Book of the
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3 Ibid., 330.
4 Jenny Adams, “Pawn Takes Knight's Queen: Playing with Chess in the Book of the Duchess,”
The Chaucer Review 34.2 (1999): 129, accessed March 6, 2011, http://www.jstor.org/stable/
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5 Geoffrey Chaucer, The Boke of the Duchesse, The Online Medieval & Classical Library: line
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6 Mark N. Taylor, “Chaucer’s Knowledge of Chess,” The Chaucer Review 38.4 (2004): 303,
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7 H. J. R. Murray, A History of Chess (Oxford: Clarendon, 1913), 739-742.
8 Chaucer, The Boke of the Duchesse, lines 618-619.
9 Adams, “Pawn Takes Knight's Queen,” 133.
10 Chaucer, The Boke of the Duchesse, lines 668-672.
11 Ibid., 654-661.
12 Taylor, “Chaucer’s Knowledge of Chess,” 308.
13 Chaucer, The Boke of the Duchesse, line 682.
14 Howard R. Patch, “Chaucer and Lady Fortune,” The Modern Language Review 22.4 (1927):
378, accessed March 6, 2011, http://www.jstor.org/stable/3714845.
15 Ibid., 378.
16 Ibid., 379.
17 Giovanni Boccaccio, The Book of Theseus: Teseida delle Nozze d’Emilia, trans. Bernadette
Marie McCoy (New York: Medieval Text Association, 1974), Book III, line 76.
18 Ibid., Book IV, line 80.
19 Ibid., Book IV, line 86.