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The 12th-century Lewis chessmen in the collection of the National Museum of Scotland. The history of chess can be traced back nearly 1,500 years to its earliest known predecessor, called chaturanga, in India; its prehistory is the subject of speculation.
10th century – As-Suli writes Kitab Ash-Shatranj, the earliest known work to take a scientific approach to chess strategy. late 10th century – Dark and light squares are introduced on a chessboard. 1008 – Mention of chess in the will of Count Uregel, another early reference.* 1173 – Earliest recorded use of a form of Algebraic Chess ...
It is first known from India around the seventh century AD. [1] While there is some uncertainty, the prevailing view among chess historians is that chaturanga is the common ancestor of the board games chess, xiangqi (Chinese), janggi (Korean), shogi (Japanese), sittuyin (Burmese), makruk (Thai), ouk chatrang (Cambodian) and modern Indian chess. [1]
The queen piece didn't emerge until the 15th century, and some Catholic church leaders once tried to ban the game. The fascinating history of chess, from attempts to ban the game to the rise of ...
Shatranj adapted much of the same rules as chaturanga, and also the basic 16-piece structure. There is also a larger 10×11 board derivative; the 14th-century Tamerlane chess, or shatranj kamil (perfect chess), with a slightly different piece structure. [citation needed] In some later variants the darker squares were engraved.
Murray's companion work was A History of Board-Games other than ChessISBN 0-19-827401-7. He also wrote a new history of the game from its beginnings until 1866, called A Short History of Chess. This was found among the papers left behind at his death in 1955, and was published, with contributions by B. Goulding Brown and Harry Golombek, in 1963.
The recorded history of chess goes back at least to the emergence of chaturanga—also thought to be an ancestor to similar games like xiangqi and shogi —in seventh-century India. After its introduction in Persia, it spread to the Arab world and then to Europe. The modern rules of chess emerged in Europe at the end of the 15th century, with ...
Chaturanga was introduced to the Middle East as shatranj around the 7th century. ... (1981) [1949], A Short History of Chess, ... A Century of British Chess, David ...