When did chess start?

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When did chess start?

Answer 1

However, "chess is an ancient game which is first mentioned in documents dating back to the early years of the seventh century A.D. and associated with North West India and Persia. Before the seventh century of our era, the existence of chess in any land is not demonstrable by a single shred of contemporary evidence" (Fiske, the Nation).

Answer 2

I think on a Wednesday by some man named Henry B. Chass

He was the king of his village and had a chair.

Answer 3

Chess originated in India, where its early form in the 6th century was chaturanga, which translates as "four divisions of the military"-- infantry, cavalry, elephants, and chariots, represented respectively by pawn, knight, bishop, and rook. In Persia around 600 the name became shatranj and the rules were developed further. Shatranj was taken up by the Muslim world after the Islamic conquest of Persia, with the pieces largely retaining their Persian names. In Spanish "shatranj" was rendered as ajedrez and in Greek as zatrikion, but in the rest of Europe it was replaced by versions of the Persian shāh .

The first modern chess tournament was held in London in 1851 and won, surprisingly, by German Adolf Anderssen, relatively unknown at the time. Anderssen was hailed as the leading chess master and his brilliant, energetic — but from today's viewpoint strategically shallow — attacking style became typical for the time

Answer 4

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Answer 5

A long long time ago in a galaxy far far away.

Answer 6

The game of chess is thought to have originated in what is now northern India or Afganistan sometime before 6OO AD.  The oldest written references to chess date from then, but there are unverified claims that chess existed as early as 100 AD, so it has been around about 2000 years for sure.

Answer 7

Many chess historians believe that chess started in India near the end of the 6th century A.D. Afterwards it slowly migrated to Persia, then to the Arab world, then to Europe. Some historians believe that chess originated in China, although they are in the minority.