Old chess sets

Maybe we can posts our old chess sets.This was given to my father during the 60's.

are you joking?

no, he is not. i can attest to that. chess was invented in 1982 by a guy called enrico espada, who was of puerto rican decent. don't believe me??? look it up!

Didn't Chuck Norris invent chess when he was a kid?

chuck norris jokes, i hate to be mean, but wow, soooooooo original.

Chess is believed to have originated in Eastern India, c. 280 – 550 CE,^[26] in the Gupta Empire,^{[27][28][29][30]} where its early form in the 6th century was known as chaturaṅga (Sanskrit: चतुरङ्गक्रीडा), literally four divisions [of the military] – infantry, cavalry, elephants, and chariotry, represented by the pieces that would evolve into the modern pawn, knight, bishop, and rook, respectively. The earliest evidence of chess is found in the nearby Sassanid Persia around 600, where the game came to be known by the name chatrang. Chatrang is evoked in three epic romances written in Pahlavi (Middle Persian). Chatrang was taken up by the Muslim world after the Islamic conquest of Persia (633–44), where it was then named shatranj, with the pieces largely retaining their Persian names. In Spanish "shatranj" was rendered as ajedrez ("al-shatranj"), in Portuguese as xadrez, and in Greek as ζατρίκιον (zatrikion, which comes directly from the Persian chatrang),^[31] but in the rest of Europe it was replaced by versions of the Persian shāh ("king"), which was familiar as an exclamation and became the English words "check" and "chess".^{[note 3]} Murray theorized that Muslim traders came to European seaports with ornamental chess kings as curios before they brought the game of chess.^{[29][page needed]}

The game reached Western Europe and Russia by at least three routes, the earliest being in the 9th century. By the year 1000 it had spread throughout Europe.^[32] Introduced into the Iberian Peninsula by the Moors in the 10th century, it was described in a famous 13th-century manuscript covering shatranj, backgammon, and dice named the Libro de los juegos. Another theory contends that chess arose from the game xiangqi (Chinese chess) or one of its predecessors,^[33] although this has been contested.^[34]

Looks like those wikipedia hacks are at it again... always changing stuff

this is wrong, it was enrico espada.

LOL.just join our team GRUNGE vs.the arizonians-Limon24

http://www.chess.com/groups/team_match?id=453020