Note 113 — Chapter XVII · GREAT JEWISH DOCTORS.—ABEN EZRA, MAIMONIDES, BENJAMIN OF TUDELA.
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Among his other accomplishments, he was, we are told, a skilful chess-player. The Jews were famous for their passion for and skill at that game. Among Aben Ezra’s writings was a poem on chess, which was rendered into Latin, and published at Oxford in 1694.