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It is believed that chess originated from chaturanga in ancient India. The All India Chess Federation is the formal governing body, and more generally the robust institutional chess "ecosystem" of the country has been deemed (by the BBC) as one of the best, if not the best, in the world. [1]
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. From India it spread to Persia , where it was modified in terms of shapes and rules and developed into Shatranj .
Indian chess is the name given to regional variations of chess played in India in the 18th and 19th centuries. It is distinct from chaturanga . There are several such variations , all quite similar to modern rules , with variants regarding castling , pawn promotion , etc.
As of 2023, 24 different players have been conferred with the highest civilian and sports honours of India, including the Padma awards and the Arjuna Award. Viswanathan Anand was the first sportsperson to receive the second-highest civilian award, Padma Vibhushan , in 2008 and the inaugural highest sports award, Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna (now ...
Manuel Aaron (born 30 December 1935) is the first Indian chess master in the second half of the 20th century. He dominated chess in India in the 1960s to the 1980s, was the national champion of India nine times between 1959 and 1981.
Gukesh Dommaraju became the youngest world chess champion on Thursday after beating reigning champion Ding Liren in the final match of the World Chess Championship in Singapore.. The 18-year-old ...
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]
6th century – The game chaturanga probably evolved into its current form around this time in India. [1] 569 – A Chinese emperor wrote a book of xiangqi, Xiang Jing, in AD 569. c. 600 – The Karnamuk-i-Artakhshatr-i-Papakan contains references to the Persian game of shatranj, the direct ancestor of modern Chess.