Courier chess (English Wikipedia)

Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Courier chess" in English language version.

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2chessvariants.org

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chessvariants.org

See The Chess Variant Pages website http://www.chessvariants.org/historic.dir/courier.html. Murray 1913, p. 392 (citing Selenus, Gustavus, Schach- oder Königs-Spiel, Leipzig, 1616) gives the contrary rule.
The Chess Variant Pages website at http://www.chessvariants.org/historic.dir/courierspiel.html mentions H. G. Albers, 1821, and George Hope Verney, Chess Eccentricities, Longmans, Green & Co., London, 1885.

courierchess.com

The website http://courierchess.com has information about the history of Courier chess, including a large image of Lucas van Leyden's painting.

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de.wikipedia.org

Kurwal(c)hen / Churwalchen = historic German name for the Romansh-speaking region around Chur (see also de:Churrätien)