Buddhibalkrida
Buddhibalkrida is an 1893 Indian book on chess by Vinayak Rajaram Tope, written in Devanagari for Marathi-speaking readers of the period. Its pictures are printed grids of eight by eight squares, each with Devanagari syllables placed on the squares as a notation for a chess position, so a designer might take the clean ruled-grid layout and the bold, scattered letterforms as a graphic pattern.
