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The Wheat on the Chessboard

By: Liz Huyck
Narrated by: Dan Schoeneberg
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In this Indian tale, a wise mathematician named Sessa invents the game of chess to amuse the king and requests a single grain of wheat as his reward for the first square of the chessboard, double that the following day for the second, and so on. In the end, Sessa gets the real reward he wanted all along – a wiser and more mathematical king.

©2012 Carus Publishing dba Cricket Media (P)2018 Cricket Media Inc.
Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths Literature & Fiction

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