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In some ways I like it that no one knows exactly where it originated, it adds to the mystery of the game. Admittedly, though, I had been led to believe that originated somwhere in the east.
Good article. However that Nimzowitsch issue may have argued, and he was not truly a World Champion but he was one of the pioneer of hyper-modern theory of chess. That time neither FIDE nor any rating system was there. The championship was official but the players were chosen based on organiser's choice or by viewer's choice. No one should have doubt on the supremacy of those champions, but it may missed a number of other real strong players. Who can say that they did'nt have quality to be a champion?
We must remember Nimzowitsch for his contribution to hyper-modern theory of chess.
The article gives us a good information that after world war (probably 2nd world war) only 2 champions are there outside from Russia .
Chess was invented 8 years ago by a kid named Magnus. I forgot his last name.
Dec 16, 2021
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The OP’s first paragraph is credible, but the second one misses by a long distance, collapsing things separated by hundreds of years. It then gets worse.
TheCatAce wrote:
well it's hard to trace back when exactly chess originated from cause every country has had it at one point
Why do you bump a 10 year old(!) post only to criticise it? And such with a kind of lame argument because that the chess game originated in India and moved over the Persian empires to Europe is undisputed. There have been no countries in a modern sense back in the days, just to mention it.
mpaetz wrote:
Shah Maat means the King is dead.
Yeah... they call King "Shah" in Persia.
But I never thought about it before you noticed that.
Dec 17, 2021
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AmlandeepBhattachary wrote:
All the chessplaying countries claim that chess originated in their land.
No. This is a ludicrous claim.
Dec 17, 2021
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Spielkalb wrote:
TheCatAce wrote:
well it's hard to trace back when exactly chess originated from cause every country has had it at one point
Why do you bump a 10 year old(!) post only to criticise it? And such with a kind of lame argument because that the chess game originated in India and moved over the Persian empires to Europe is undisputed. There have been no countries in a modern sense back in the days, just to mention it.
There is some dispute. A Chinese historian published a book several years ago claiming chess originated in China. There are also credible claims that it came to India from Persia, based mostly on some linguistic study of the oldest Indian documents that mention the game.
The standard narrative of an Indian beginning, put forth a bit over a century ago by H. J. R. Murray, A History of Chess (1913), remains the most plausible and widely accepted story. There is still some room for dispute.
Dec 17, 2021
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TheCatAce wrote:
Ziryab wrote:
Spielkalb wrote:
TheCatAce wrote:
well it's hard to trace back when exactly chess originated from cause every country has had it at one point
Why do you bump a 10 year old(!) post only to criticise it? And such with a kind of lame argument because that the chess game originated in India and moved over the Persian empires to Europe is undisputed. There have been no countries in a modern sense back in the days, just to mention it.
There is some dispute. A Chinese historian published a book several years ago claiming chess originated in China. There are also credible claims that it came to India from Persia, based mostly on some linguistic study of the oldest Indian documents that mention the game.
The standard narrative of an Indian beginning, put forth a bit over a century ago by H. J. R. Murray, A History of Chess (1913), remains the most plausible and widely accepted story. There is still some room for dispute.
ha i knew it
Very few countries have made claims. Even fewer (3) have made credible claims.
All the chessplaying countries claim that chess originated in their land. However chess perhaps originated in India. Legend says that the demon king Ravana'a wife Mandodori introduced chess to him for stopping him to go to war. Chess was known as Chaturanga .In the later centuries chess became popular in the Muslim countries and the term 'Shah Maat' or chekmate became popular.
Chess became very popular in Europe in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. During that time a conflict was going on between papacy and king. And the Russian Zsarina accured lots of power. The chess piece that was previously known as Minister got the name of Queen.
The famous French emperor Napolean Bonaparte and his Russian counterpart Zsar Alexander were ardent chess fans and played chess with criminals as chess pieces. If a pawn died then the person playing the role of pawn had to be awred death sentence.
In the nineteenth century the American genious Paul Morphy aquired monumental fame. Unfortunately his last days were not well lived. Wiliam Steinz of Germany became the first unofficial World Chess Champion .
In the later stages players like Nimzobhich,Lasker and Capablanca became World Champions. Tal , Botvinik were some other masters of the 64 Squares.During the 1970s the World Championship match between Fishcer and Spassky got great media hypes. In the middle of Cold War the battle was called as the battle between the two hostile superpowers.
Karpov and Kasparov followed by players like Kramanik became great exponents of chess. In the post World War era only two non Russian became World Champions, one was American Bobby Fisher and another India's own current reigning World Champion Vishwanathan Anand.