why was the game of chess really invented?

Answer 1

Origins of chess

A Persian youth playing chess with two suitors. Chess was played in Persia as early as the 3rd century AD.
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A Persian youth playing chess with two suitors. Chess was played in Persia as early as the 3rd century AD.

Many countries claim to have invented chess in some incipient form. The most commonly held view is that chess originated in India, since the Arabic, Persian, Greek, Portuguese and Spanish words for chess are all derived from the Sanskrit game Chaturanga. The present version of chess played throughout the world ultimately derives from a version of Chaturanga that was played in India around the 6th century CE. It is believed that the Persians subsequently created a more recognisable version of the game called Shatranj. However, another theory suggests that chess arose from the similar game of Xiangqi, or a predecessor, that existed in China from the 2nd century BC. Scholars who favour this theory include Joseph Needham and David H. Li.

Chess eventually spread westward to Europe and eastward as far as Japan, spawning variants as it went. The game spread throughout the Islamic world after the Muslim conquest of Persia. When it entered the Islamic world, the names of its pieces largely retained their Persian forms but its name became shatranj, which continued in Spanish as ajedrez and in Greek as zatrikion, but in most of Europe it was replaced by versions of the Persian word shāh = "king". There is a theory that this name replacement happened because, before the game of chess came to Europe, merchants coming to Europe brought ornamental chess kings as curiosities and with them their name shāh, which Europeans mispronounced in various ways.

Chess eventually reached Russia via Mongolia, where it was played at the beginning of the 7th century. It was introduced into the Iberian Peninsula by the Moors in the 10th century, and described in a famous 13th century manuscript covering chess, backgammon, and dice named the Libro de los juegos. The entrance of chess into Europe is marked by an enhancement of the powers of the queen.


Origins of chess terms

* Checkmate: This is the English rendition of shāh māt, which is Persian for "the king is finished".
* Rook: From Sanskrit Rath which means "chariot", or Persian rukh which means "chariot" or "cheek" (part of the face). The piece resembles a siege tower. It is also believed to be named after the mythical Persian bird of great power called the roc. In India, the piece is more popularly called haathi, which means "elephant".
* Bishop. From the Persian pīl ("the elephant"), but in Europe and the western part of the Islamic world people knew little or nothing about elephants, and the name of the chessman entered Western Europe as Latin alfinus, a meaningless word that then evolved further (in Spanish, for example, it evolved to the name "alfil"); alfil is actually Arabic for "the elephant", where al means "the" and fil means "elephant". The Spanish word would most certainly have been taken from the Islamic provinces of Spain. The English name "bishop" is inspired by the conventional shape of the piece originally intended as the tusk of an elephant but which also looks like the mitre of a bishop.
* Queen. Persian farzīn ("vizier") became Arabic firzān, which entered western European languages in such forms as alfferza and fers, but was later replaced by "queen".


Early on, the pieces in European chess had limited movement; bishops could only move by jumping exactly two spaces diagonally (similar to the elephant in xiangqi), the queen could move only one space diagonally, pawns could not move two spaces on their first move, and there was no castling.

By the end of the 15th century, the modern rules for the basic moves had been adopted from Italy: pawns gained the option of moving two squares on their first move and the en passant capture therewith, bishops acquired their modern move, and the queen was made the most powerful piece; consequently modern chess was referred to as "Queen's Chess" or "Mad Queen Chess". The game in Europe since that time has been almost the same as is played today. The current rules were finalized in the early 19th century, except for the exact conditions for a draw.

The most popular piece design, the "Staunton" set, was created by Nathaniel Cook in 1849, endorsed by Howard Staunton (a leading player of the time), and manufactured originally by Jaques of London. The style was officially adopted by Fédération Internationale des Échecs (FIDE) in 1924.

Answer 2

Many countries claim to have invented chess in some incipient form. The most commonly held view is that chess originated in India, since the Arabic, Persian, Greek, Portuguese and Spanish words for chess are all derived from the Sanskrit game Chaturanga. The present version of chess played throughout the world ultimately derives from a version of Chaturanga that was played in India around the 6th century CE. It is believed that the Persians subsequently created a more recognisable version of the game called Shatranj. However, another theory suggests that chess arose from the similar game of Xiangqi, or a predecessor, that existed in China from the 2nd century BC. Scholars who favour this theory include Joseph Needham and David H. Li.

Answer 3

Many countries claim to have invented chess in some incipient form. The most commonly held view is that chess originated in India, since the Arabic, Persian, Greek, Portuguese and Spanish words for chess are all derived from the Sanskrit game Chaturanga. The present version of chess played throughout the world ultimately derives from a version of Chaturanga that was played in India around the 6th century CE. It is believed that the Persians subsequently created a more recognisable version of the game called Shatranj. However, another theory suggests that chess arose from the similar game of Xiangqi, or a predecessor, that existed in China from the 2nd century BC. Scholars who favour this theory include Joseph Needham and David H. Li.

Chess eventually spread westward to Europe and eastward as far as Japan, spawning variants as it went. The game spread throughout the Islamic world after the Muslim conquest of Persia. When it entered the Islamic world, the names of its pieces largely retained their Persian forms but its name became shatranj, which continued in Spanish as ajedrez and in Greek as zatrikion, but in most of Europe it was replaced by versions of the Persian word shāh = "king". There is a theory that this name replacement happened because, before the game of chess came to Europe, merchants coming to Europe brought ornamental chess kings as curiosities and with them their name shāh, which Europeans mispronounced in various ways.

Chess eventually reached Russia via Mongolia, where it was played at the beginning of the 7th century. It was introduced into the Iberian Peninsula by the Moors in the 10th century, and described in a famous 13th century manuscript covering chess, backgammon, and dice named the Libro de los juegos. The entrance of chess into Europe is marked by an enhancement of the powers of the queen.

Answer 4

The names of the pieces and the rules of the game show that the common ancestor of European chess was the Arabic / Moslem game called Shatranj. There are at least four paths by which chess arrived in Europe. It arrived in Spain and Italy by conquest, in the Balkans via the Byzantine Empire centered on Constantinople (Istanbul), and in Russia and Scandinavia via the Volga River trade route from the Caspian Sea. Vikings spread the game in the Baltic Sea and beyond.

Answer 5

it quite is an instantaneous quote from wikipedia: "Chess is a entertainment and aggressive attitude game for 2 gamers. additionally customary as Western Chess or worldwide Chess to tell apart it from its predecessors and different chess variations, the present form of the sport emerged in Southern Europe interior the 2d a million/2 of the fifteenth century after evolving from comparable, a lot older video games of Asian beginning. in the present day, chess is unquestionably one of the international's maximum prevalent activities, performed by employing an expected 605 million human beings international in golf equipment, on line, by employing correspondence (mail and e mail), in tournaments (beginner and expert) and informally. aspects of artwork and technological expertise are recent in chess composition and concept. Chess is likewise inspired as a manner of improving psychological prowess."

Answer 6

Game of chess were invented in India in an King & Queens era.
There were battles faught to conquer lands.& rule the kingdom.

Chess is an interpretation of what was hapening in that era.

Answer 7

For people too lazy or phyiscally unable to play golf.

Both are equally frustrating.

Answer 8

I believe to teach battle strategy.

Answer 9

It was originally for plnning military (battlefield) strategy.

Answer 10

I think I learned that it came from china.