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Captain Joseph Bertin (1690s – c. 1736) was one of the first authors to write about the game of chess. David Hooper and Kenneth Whyld in The Oxford Companion to Chess call his book The Noble Game of Chess the first worthwhile chess book in the English language. B. Goulding Brown writing in the December 1932 British Chess Magazine called it the first original English chess book.Bertin was a Huguenot born at Castelmoron-sur-Lot in the 1690s.