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Chess
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A brief history of chess - Alex Gendler
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The History of Chess
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A Brief History of the Game of Chess
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Most Beautiful Chess Game Ever Played - "The Evergreen Game"
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The First Recorded Chess Game: Games That Changed Chess History With Anna Rudolf
Chess is a two-player strategy board game played on a chessboard, a checkered gameboard with 64 squares arranged in an 8×8 grid. The game is played by millions of people worldwide. Chess is believed to have originated in India sometime before the 7th century. The game was derived from the Indian game chaturanga, which is also the likely ancestor of the Eastern strategy games xiangqi, janggi, and shogi. Chess reached Europe by the 9th century, due to the Umayyad conquest of Hispania. The pieces assumed their current powers in Spain in the late 15th century; the rules were standardized in the 19th century.
Other Indian inventions
Rules
Setup
Movement
Check and checkmate
Castling
Win
Draw
Time control
Notation
Tournaments and matches
Governance
Titles and rankings
Theory
Opening
Middlegame
Tactics
Strategy
Endgame
Predecessors
1200–1700: Origins of the modern game
1700–1873: The Romantic Era in chess
1873–1945: Birth of a sport
1945–1990: Post-World War II era
Mathematics
Psychology
Composition
Online chess
Computer chess
Variants