The Game of Chess

sixth of the rooksoriginal: "rache". Referring to the movement of the rook, the piece representing the king's messengers or vicars. The seventh
of the commoners The eighth
a summary of the things said before

Among all things
that are harmful to man,
the greatest is when one despises God and
offends men, neglects self-improvement
and kills his correctororiginal: "strauffer". This refers to a teacher, mentor, or official who provides moral discipline and correction., and this
is proven by King Nero, of whom
one reads that he killed his master Seneca
because he did not wish to endure his correction.
Now it happened that there was a king
in Babylon named Evil-MerodachThe son of Nebuchadnezzar. According to the legend used by Cessolis, the game of chess was invented to correct his legendary cruelty.
who was so cruel that he hacked his father's
body into three hundred pieces and gave
the flesh to three hundred vulturesoriginal: "geyen".
and other wicked beasts; and here, the
greatest and worst thing was that he hated those
who corrected him and he killed them. In these
wicked things, he followed his evil father
who had intended to kill the wise men
in Babylon because they
could not tell him his dream which...