chess-The Oxford Companion to Chess - First Edition by David Hooper & Kenneth Whyld

While and 39 or 40 single nov6 by Black. A
record of the moles of a gane is called a sore.
MOIE, (2) tne turn to play. Forexanple, a playe.
nay say ilt is white\ nove or'while has the
move. see LosE rsE MovE
MURRAY, HAROLD JAMES RUTFrIEN
(1868-19s5). to.enosr chess historian, *hool
inspedor. His,4 EBrory al cnrss (1913), perhaps
the Bosl important che$ bool in English, N.s the
result ol about 14 yea6 of research inspired by
hsA. and gronndcd on va. der LTNDES work.
Duing that period Muray @ntnbuted 35 ardcles
6 $e Bntish chess r!taga:ir.. sme of which
outli.ed his dis@ledes. Mosl of fte qlo-page
HBrorl is @.@rnod wilh the evoltrtion of nodem
chess frcm its o.iental preor$r up to the iTth
enlury. He learned Arabic so that h€ @uld read
important manucripls, and in addirion lo his own
.ir.le he sa able to $licit help lron colleagues of
his lather Si Jmes A. H. Muray, ednor in chiet
ol the o,lor.1 Enelth Di.riorarri he was als
aidcdbyJ. G wurE, with both advice atrd the loan
of rde books f.om the Cleveland colection, and bl
mant othes. HG book inchdes an authoritalive
a@ounr ot bolh MNsaBir and M.DTEVAL pRoB-
LEMS. (See also srsrcRy oF cnr$.) In 1952 h€
published a companion wtumq A Histoty of
Board canes othet thon chess.
While the sholaship olhis ches book has nevcr
been qucstioncd it is too detailcd for the average
ches-player. Aware of this prcblem, Muray
wrote a bnefer *ork approaching rhe bpic in a
morc popula.way. The ma.uscnpt, unfnished at
his death, wa completed and published in 1963 as
A Shotr Historr of ch6s. (se .rrs BoNoNhE.)
MUSIC AND CEESS. Sode great players have
b.cn lirst-class muicians. like rarMANov. Conversely
Adolf Brodsky (1851-1929), oftrine
c.ndu.r.rofthe Hrll6 OrchesiB wrs. firslclrss
player. Robert Schunann said that 6usic 6ight be
comparcd to chess, the queen ha,ing supremc
power might synbolize n;lody, but with rhe king
6 representarive ol hardony dere would resr fte
linal issue, Mendelssohn..ho a siongplayer,won
lhe majoritrof games againsl his regnlaropponcnt
idParis, 1831 2. When his oppone.t claimed they
were equal Mendelssohn said, We play equ.lly
weu- rtuite equally