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- Gods play chess. A163.1.1
- Invention of chess game. A1468.1
- Monkey plays chess. B298.1
- Parrot gives advice to queen playing chess, and she always wins. B565
- Magic game board (chessboard). D1209.7
- Divination with chessboard. (Cf. D1209.7.) D1311.23
- Skill at chess-playing. F679.8
- Recognition by unique ability to play chess. H31.10
- Chess game as test. H509.3
- Fool rings bell to announce that he has won at chess. No one comes when he rings to save his home from fire. J2199.1.1
- King playing chess when important news arrives. P14.3
- Threefold division of king's day: one third dedicated to watching boys at play; one third to playing fidehell (chess?); one third to drinking. P14.16
- Chess board and men made from bones of slain enemies. S139.2.2.4.3
- Origin of chess. Inventor asks one wheat-grain for first square, two for the second, four for the third, eight for the fourth, etc. The king cannot pay. Z21.1
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