'How can any one like chess ?' Mr Gwynne kept his finger on a piece he was about to move, glanced up, but did not speak.
'They tell me you ought to have at least five or six moves in your eye whilst you are making one,' said Sir Hugh.

'For my part, I always find one move at a time more than I can manage.

It certainly is the dullest game ever invented.' 'Chess is a game of great antiquity,' said the Rev.Jonathan sententiously.

'It is supposed to have been invented in China or Hindustan, and was known in the latter place by the name _Chaturanga_, that is, four _angas_, or members of an army.' 'The army must be proud to send such members to parliament,' said young Rice Rice, with a consciousness of superior wit, in which the remainder of the party did not appear to participate.
'True, young gentleman,' said Mr Jonathan, 'and well she might, for they were elephants, horses, chariots, and foot-soldiers; but what such members of an army have to do with parliament, I should be glad to hear you explain.

I do not remember mention being made of parliament till the twelfth century.