George Duke wrote on Sat, Feb 5, 2011 04:51 PM UTC:
At Goddesschess John Ayer rejects also the received genealogy,
http://www.goddesschess.com/chessays/johnayer.html.
Http://www.goddesschess.com/chessays/chessaystoc.html, afore index of many historical chess articles.
___________And another specific one of those from their Goddesschess history index:
http://www.goddesschess.com/chessays/needham1.html.
________________The Silk Road:
http://www.goddesschess.com/chessays/remus.html.