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History Of Chess

I come from a family of golfers. Golf is In addition, in the past only India had
the favorite recreation of everyone in my all three animals, horse, camel and
family, including my grandparents, my mom elephant, in its cavalry, which represent
and dad, myself and my four siblings. knight, bishop and rook in chess. Also,
Every year, we have a family reunion of there are a lot of similarities between
sorts featuring all my relatives from my the way chess is played today and the way
father's side. At those gathering, the Chaturanga was played in India during the
entire clan always has a sportsfest 6th century. Historians believe the
wherein each of the different families Persians later created a more popular
take on one another in four key sports. version of the game and called it
We always win the golf competition. The Shatranj. But there is yet another theory
others are volleyball, ping pong and that claims that chess started from a
chess. game called Xiangqi that traces its roots
My dad told me to study chess for next to China during the 2nd century. there
year's family sportsfest. I complained a are a number of well-known scholars and
lot at the beginning but have grown quite historians who support the latter theory.
fond of the game. I often like to recite Eventually, the popularity of chess
the history of the game to my friends caught on in the west particularly in
and, actually, to anyone willing to Europe as well as to the east
listen. particularly in Japan. Chess also started
Like the game of golf, chess also has a to spread throughout the world of Islam
number of fathers as many countries claim following the Muslim's conquest of
to have originated the game. This has Persia. After some time, chess found its
some basis especially if you note that way to Russia (via Mongolia) where people
the Arabic, Persian, Greek, Portuguese started playing it in the 7th century. In
and Spanish words for chess are all the 10th century, the Moors introduced
derived from the Sanskrit game chess into the Iberian Peninsula as
Chaturanga. You might also want to mentioned in a popular 13th century
consider the fact that among all manuscript that also covered backgammon
countries, only India had three animals and dice, which was referred to as the
in its cavalry -- the horse, camel and Libro de los juegos. Historians say that
elephant. In chess, these are believed to the entry of chess into Europe is
be represented by the knight, bishop and characterized by the enhancement of the
rook. queen's powers.




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