1898 January, A. A. McDonald, “The Origin and Early History of Chess”, inJournal of the Royal Asiatic Society[1], volume30, number 1, London: Royal Asiatic Society,→DOI,→ISBN, page138:
With their introduction thefers and thealfil disappeared from European chess.
1979 [1960], R. C. Bell, “War Games”, inBoard and Table Games from Many Civilizations[2], 2nd edition, New York: Dover Publications,→ISBN, page71:
In theChronique of Philip Mouskat (a.d. 1243), lines 23617–20, is a reference to aking of Fierges, indicating that afers could be promoted to a king at this early period.
2015 September, Nancy Marie Brown,Ivory Vikings: The Mystery of the Most Famous Chessmen in the World and the Woman Who Made Them[3], New York: St. Martin's Press,→ISBN, page112:
Thisfers mates him in straight lines; thisfers mates him at an angle.
c.800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published inThesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 137b7
Is he infers-[s]o ro·gab Ch[i]rine oc techt i mBethil .i.haec requies rl. "Bid fír æm," olsesom, "is sunt bia-sa in eilithri co llae messa."
This is theverse that Jerome sang as he went into Bethlehem, namely,haec requies and so on; “it will indeed be true,” he says: “it is here that I will be in pilgrimage until the Day of Judgement.”
c.800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published inThesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 111d1
