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The earliest precursor of modern chess is a game called chaturanga, which flourished in India by the 6th century, and is the earliest known game to have two essential features found in all later chess variations—different pieces having different powers (which was not the case with checkers and Go), and victory depending on the fate of one ...
Chess set from Rajasthan, India. Chaturanga (Sanskrit: चतुरङ्ग, IAST: caturaṅga, pronounced [tɕɐtuˈɾɐŋɡɐ]) is an ancient Indian strategy board game.It is first known from India around the seventh century AD.
1802 – Earliest known American chess book, Chess Made Easy by J. Humphreys is published. 1813 – The Liverpool Mercury prints the world's earliest chess column. 1824 – Earliest known British correspondence chess match, London – Edinburgh is held. 1830 – Earliest recorded instance of a modern female chess player.
The World Chess Championship 2006, in which Kramnik beat the FIDE World Champion Veselin Topalov, reunified the titles and made Kramnik the undisputed World Chess Champion. [135] In September 2007, he lost the title to Viswanathan Anand of India. Anand defended his title in the revenge match of 2008, [136] 2010 and 2012.
Murray's aim is threefold: to present as complete a record as is possible of the varieties of chess that exist or have existed in different parts of the world; to investigate the ultimate origin of these games and the circumstances of the invention of chess; and to trace the development of the modern European game from the first appearance of its ancestor, the Indian chaturanga, in the ...
Tamerlane chess is a medieval chess variant. Like modern chess , it is derived from shatranj . It was developed in Central Asia during the reign of Emperor Timur , and its invention is also attributed to him. [ 1 ]
Two shatranj players in a detail from a Persian miniature painting of Bayasanghori Shahname made in 1430. Shatranj (Arabic: شطرنج, pronounced [ʃaˈtˤrandʒ]; from Middle Persian: چترنگ, chatrang) is an old form of chess, as played in the Sasanian Empire. Its origins lie in the Indian game of chaturanga. [1]
From the Song dynasty through the Ming dynasty, China sent great trade convoys through the southern islands and all around the Indian Ocean and also traded with Japan, so elements of South Asian chess could have reached Japan. Shogi might thus combine strands from Chinese and Southeast Asian chess. [1] See also the history of chess.