can u help??? best answer gets TEN points!!! and u still get 3 for trying what do u have to lose???

Question

I need your help America!!!
i need to know the history of the popular board game chess and any interesting facts about it.
do a little research, u mite learn something and u might get ten points!!!

Answer 1

I don't need the ten points. Why don't you do a little research
yourself? I'm sure you can do it as well as anyone else here.

Answer 2

Most experts agree it was first played in India. The current variation is somewhat different than what the ancients played. The king, queen, bishop, knight, and rook were other characters in the original game. It was changed to those when it came to Europe.
Checkmate, is Farsi (Persian) for the "shah (king) is dead". And in some languages this is what it is known by.
The Russians and the former republics of the Soviet Union have by far the best chess players in the world.
A super computer was built by IBM, called Deep Blue, to challenge the reigning world champion. Several games were draws and the human won several, but the overall winner was the computer, with two people helping. Kasparov is probably the greatest player this generation. Bobby Fisher was a child prodigy, and probably the best American chess player ever. He is currently wanted by the US authorities for playing in Serbia, when there was a ban on visits there. He is currently living in Iceland. He disappeared from the public many years ago.
A good movie about chess, a true story, is Searching for Bobby Fisher. Good Luck

Answer 3

I'm not from America but I knkow chess alot: perennially popular game of skill between two players, involving intense intellectual competition, with almost no element of chance. This game is about the mind, not the body.
This game, which has tantalized and enchanted many of the best minds of the world for almost 14 centuries, originated in the Indus Valley in India in the 6th century ad. Originally known as Chaturanga (the “army game”), it spread rapidly along the routes of commerce and conquest, first to Persia, then to the Byzantine Empire, then throughout the rest of Asia. The Muslim world, on the threshold of its greatest scientific and cultural accomplishments, welcomed chess with unbounded delight. The Arabs extensively studied, analysed, and wrote treatises on the game, and in the process developed the algebraic notation system.

Chess reached Europe sometime between 700 and 900, in part through the Islamic conquest of Spain, in part via marauding Vikings and, later, Crusaders returning from the Holy Land. Excavations at a Viking grave site off the south shore of Brittany have brought to light a chess set, and 10th-century chess figurines of Scandinavian origin, still made in the traditional Arabic form, have been excavated at Vosges, France. In the Middle Ages chess was played according to the Muslim rules—with the queen and the bishop comparatively weak pieces, able to move only one square at a time. In the 16th and 17th centuries the evolution of chess took a quantum leap; the queen became the most powerful piece on the board. The pawns were also permitted to advance two squares on the first move and the en passant (“in passing”) rule permitting pawn captures under these circumstances was introduced to the game, along with the revolutionary concept of castling. Italian players began to dominate the game, wresting this supremacy from the Spanish. The Italians, in turn, were superseded by the French and English during the 18th and 19th centuries, when chess, until then principally the game played by royalty and the aristocracy, moved into the coffee houses and universities. With the public now playing chess, the level of play improved considerably; matches and tournaments were played with greater frequency, and prominent players of the game developed schools and followers.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

originated from the game chaturanga, but i forget the rest. i WOULD go upstairs to get the book i have on its origins, but cant risk wakin parents up. wikipedia is a good source of ANYTHING on the internet

good luck

Answer 6

Go to
www.wikipedia.com
Then type in chess, i garuntee that something helpful will come up.

Answer 7

chess spelled backwards is ssehc

Answer 8

you can read the book about chess.i knew someone that's very clever in chess.it's name is garry kasparov.garry kasparov loses his fight with blue demon.

Answer 9

Sorry, not from America.

Answer 10

DO it urself u lazy ***