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OCR: Chess Problems From its beginnings the game of chess has always been regarded as one of the greatest tests of lintelligence and mental power gr The first mention of chess is in an The great German Indian romance dated 590 AD poet Goethe called The earliest chess piece a carved King chess "the touchstone of from an Indian set with an Arabic the challenge intellect" The epitomised intellectual by century inscription, dates chess from problems the 8th the chess problem The first were composed by the caliph Mutasim Billah of Baghdad around 840 AD Chess problems were copied at the English monasteries of Abbotsbury and Cerne Abbey in Dorset around 1250 In 1295 Nicholas de S Nicholai wrote the Bonus Socius the first compilation of chess problems Proble