Ti ludis tesseris. 
Si illud, quod maxime opus est facto non cadit. 
Illud quod cecedit forte, id arte ut corrigus. 
                         Adelph iv. 7. 22-24.

Notes.  According to Dr. Young, 1815, and M. Champollion, 1824, Ramses III was the 15th Monarch of the 18th dynasty, the date affixed to him being 1561 to 1559 B.C., but the British Museum Catalogue, page 60 says:  The principal part of the monuments in this room are of the age of King Ramses ii, the Sesostris of the Greeks, and the greatest monarch of the 19th dynasty; but, in the tables, he appears as the 14th of the 18th dynasty 1565 to 1561 B.C. and the catalogue is probably a slip.

No consensus of agreement however has been arrived as to Egyptian Chronology.  Sesostris for example 1473 to 1418 B.C., (Manetho, the scrolls Young, Champollion) Herodotus thought, ascended the throne about 1360 B.C.

Some Bible Commentators have even called the Shishak of Scripture 558 B.C.  Sesostris.

Bishop Warburton was wont to vent his displeasure on those who did not agree with him.  For instance, on one Nicholas Mann, whose provocation was that he argued for the identity of Osiris and Sesostris after Warburton had pronounced that they were to be distinguished, he revenged himself by saying to Archbishop Potter in an abrupt way, “I suppose, you know, you have chosen an Arian.”

Under Exodus 1 C.B. 1604 a note occurs.

The Pharaoh, in whose reign Moses was born, is known in general history by the name of Rameses iv, surnamed Mei Amoun.  He reigned 66 years, which agrees with the account given Ch. 4, 19, that he lived till long after Moses had retired to the desert.  The Pharaoh who reigned when the Israelites went out of Egypt was Rameses V surnamed Amenophis.

Moses’ birth is under B.C. 1531, Exodus ii., his death under B.C. 1451, Deuteronomy xxxiv., but as he was 120 years old when he died, one of these dates must be wrong, he was probably born B.C. 1571.

Opposite Chapter 14 v.25 of 1st of Kings B.C. 958 says:  There can be no rational doubt that this Shishak was the famous Sesostris the conqueror of Asia.  Herodotus, the father of profane history, relates that he, himself, has seen stones in Palestine erected by the Conqueror, and recording his achievements.

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It is confidently asserted by the writers of the Eighteenth century, and this, that the ancient Greeks and Romans were totally unacquainted with chess, but a Roman edict of 115.  B.C., specially exempting “Chess and Draughts” from prohibition passes unobserved by all the writers; and might have materially qualified their perhaps too hasty and ill-matured conclusions, and have suggested further inquiry into the nature of the sedentary games and amusements practiced and permitted by the Romans.