How Many Miles to Babylon? In the 1824 edition of "The Scottish Gallovidian Encyclopedia" there's a description of the rhyme and the game, giving the distance as "six, seven or a lang eight". The rhyme was originally accompanied by a singing game in which two lines face each other, with one player in the middle. At the end of the rhyme the players have to cross the space and any caught help the original player in the middle catch the others. The game seems to have fallen out of use in the twentieth century. In literature In film In music How Many Miles to Babylon?
George Walker (chess player) George Walker (chess player) George Walker (13 March 1803 – 23 April 1879) was an English chess player and author of "The Celebrated Analysis of A D Philidor" (London, 1832), "The Art of Chess-Play: A New Treatise on the Game of Chess" (London, 1832), "A Selection of Games at Chess played by Philidor" (London, 1835), "Chess Made Easy" (London, 1836), and "Chess Studies" (London, 1844). In 1839 visited Paris and the Café de la Régence, where he lost (+1-2) a short match to Boncourt . In 1845, he teamed up with Henry Thomas Buckle, William Davies Evans, George Perigal, and