923 – at-Tabari's Kitab akhbar ar-rusul wal-muluk (note the work is an Arabic work, no early Greek works are known) 79 BC – 8 BC – lifetime of Liu Xiang 劉 向, who wrote Shuo yuan, a compilation of early Confucian anecdotes: "Do you still feel like playing xiangqi and dancing?".
[2] c. 900 AD – Huan Kwai Lu (Book of Marvels) Describes the rules of xiangqi.
c. 500 AD – Subandhu's Vasavadatta c. 625 – Banabhatta's Harsha Charitha c. 1030 – Al-Biruni's India describes the game of chaturaji.
1148 – Kalhana's Rajatarangini (translated by MA Stein, 1900) c. 1061 or 1062 – Letter from Petrus Damiani (Cardinal Bishop of Ostia) to the Pope-elect Alexander II and the Archdeacon Hildebrand.
c. 1007 or 1008 – will of Ermengol I (Count of Urgell) c. 1620 – Sejarah Malayu c. 997 – Versus de scachis in manuscript 319 at Stiftsbibliothek Einsiedeln: A didactic poem written in Medieval Latin where the first reference to chess in a European text can be found, as well as the first mention of a checkerboard and a queen.