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History of Chess

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




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