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Originally posted by bot 6Yeah, I saw it on Q.I. (that's a t.v. program btw).
china? i heard that one a lot
The Chinese seem to claim practically all the old inventions, from the simple bell to the first clock.
I don't think we can really outright say that Chess was invented anywhere, clearly it has changed over time, with the more recent rules like castling and En Passant being added recently in Europe.
It all depends on what you mean by chess. If I decide to play chess
using a different piece for bishops who can jump over other pieces like
the knight, is it still chess?
Chinese chess is not like our modern version of chess at all. Sure,
there's the basic 8x8 square board and the pieces represent two armies,
one of which you will strategically command towards victory. But in
Chinese chess you walk the intersections of squares instead of the
squares themselves and the rules are quite different. Even Indian chess
(or Chatarunga), although much closer to our modern version of chess is
still not the same game. Not exactly. Then Persians altered the game
further to make Shatranj, which is the version of the game that
preceded modern chess. Now, modern or international chess emerged
in Europe some time in the 15th century CC.
So how old is chess and who invented it? Just ask yourself how far back
you're willing to go until you think the differences between modern chess
and an earlier version are too big to be called the same game.
Not much is known of early days of chess beyond a fairly vague report,
That 1500 years ago two princes fought, though brothers, for a Hindu throne.
Their mother cried, for no one really likes their offspring fighting to the death,
She begged them with her every breath, but sure enough, one brother died.
Sad, beyond belief, she told her winning son,
"You have caused such grief, I can't forgive this evil thing you've done."
He tried to explain, how things had really been,
But, he tried in vain, no words of his, would satisfy the queen.
And so he asked the wisest men he knew, a way to lesson her distress,
They told him he'd be pretty certain to impress
By using model soldiers on a checkered board, to show it was his brothers' fault,
They thus invented chess.
Originally posted by stockenhummmm...we may be getting close to a legitimate answer here.
It all depends on what you mean by chess. If I decide to play chess
using a different piece for bishops who can jump over other pieces like
the knight, is it still chess?
Chinese chess is not like our modern version of chess at all. Sure,
there's the basic 8x8 square board and the pieces represent two armies,
one of which you will strategically co ...[text shortened]... ferences between modern chess
and an earlier version are too big to be called the same game.
