Friday, 9 December 2016

The History of Chess



There is a general consensus among historians that the ancestry of chess can be traced to the Gupta Empire in India some 1500 years ago. Before this time, numerous board games existed, some even as old as several thousand years, dating back to the time of Ancient Egypt. Games such as senet of Ancient Egypt and liubo of Ancient China possessed vague similarities to chess such as boards divided into squares and pawn pieces as in the case of senet, however not enough semblance to be considered as predecessors of chess.

In the 6th century, a board game by the name of chaturanga originated in the Gupta Empire of modern-day India, and what would later become known as chess was effectively born. Some historians argue that earlier forms of chaturanga or chess can be traced back further to the Kushan Empire of Ancient Afghanistan, yet most agree that earlier forms of the game are difficult to define and thus leave its origins uncertain. 


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