+1, glad u stopped the lessons and share something good like this
The evolution of chess
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Nov 7, 2013
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SebLeb0210 wrote:
822 Chess first enters Europe, through Spain.
Specifically, Ziryab introduced the game in Cordoba.
What is Sebleb talking about? Everyone knows that evolution is bogus, right?
Interesting post, I've read most of this before but the history of the game always amazes me.
Some people just have to hate.
macer75 wrote:
What is Sebleb talking about? Everyone knows that evolution is bogus, right?
What? So far nobody gets the reference?
Nov 7, 2013
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macer75 wrote:
macer75 wrote:
What is Sebleb talking about? Everyone knows that evolution is bogus, right?
What? So far nobody gets the reference?
I get it. I just didn't have the wit for the proper reply.
Guess I didn't either, or I would have come up with a better way of bumping my own comment.
Ziryab wrote:
lol.
I looked for it, but I couldn't find it. Good job.
Nov 7, 2013
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I've been to that site before. Even so, I used Google. Grabbed some text from the middle of the post to search, and there it was.
Ziryab wrote:
I've been to that site before. Even so, I used Google. Grabbed some text from the middle of the post to search, and there it was.
I feel a bit silly now 
Nov 7, 2013
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waffllemaster wrote:
Ziryab wrote:
I've been to that site before. Even so, I used Google. Grabbed some text from the middle of the post to search, and there it was.
I feel a bit silly now
I sorta expect that other site plagiarized much of its info from Bill Wall who doesn't know his sources (and has plenty of erroneous information). At least they didn't offer the old lie that chess was introduced at the Battle of Poitiers, a lie promulgated by those with a stake in identifying much later Italian chess pieces as a set possessed by Charlemagne. It's one thing to put that crap into a novel like The Eight, and quite another to pass it off as history.
Nov 7, 2013
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My point is this: I introduced chess to Europe, and I have grown weary of hearing folks invent myths to fill in gaps in their knowledge. In most cases, the facts are known, even if the mythologizers don't have the knowledge because they eschew real history with proper sources.
Nov 8, 2013
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I thought i read ...
The Evolution of Cheese ???
... had to double check 
Wow T hank Yuo Seb Leb
Great Storie
About 500 A.D. chess begins somewhere in Asia
822 Chess first enters Europe, through Spain.
1202 Wirnt von Gravenberg mentions courier chess in his Arthurian romance, Wigalois.
1300 Heinrich von Beringen mentions the courier game as an improvement on chess, in his great chess poem, Schachbuch.
1337 Kunrat von Ammenhausen describes a detailed account of courier chess in Constance (at the south-west corner of Germany, bordering Switzerland).
1497 The first known publication of the rules of modern chess: Repeticion de Amoresy Arte de Ajedrez by Luis Ramirez de Lucena, in Spain.
1508 Lucas van Leyden, at 14 years old, paints his famous portrayal of courier chess, which later finds its way to the Royal Museum of Berlin.
1616 Gustav Selenus witnesses courier chess in Ströbeck, Germany. He describes the rules of play in his Das Schack- oder König-Spiel (“Chess- or King-Game”). He also provides a sketch of elaborate figurative pieces (below).
1651 On May 13th, The village of Ströbeck, Germany is presented with a courier chess board and silver courier chess pieces by the Elector-Prince Frederick William of Brandenburg. The board remains in Ströbeck; the silver pieces are long gone.
1661 Jan de Braÿ, classic Dutch Artist in Haarlem, Netherlands, sketches a young man (possibly a self-portrait), sitting with chessmen strewn on a courier chess board (top of this page). Certain pieces, especially the pawns, show a strong resemblance to the pieces in van Leyden's painting of 1508.
1817 A man by the name of Langenstraß leaves a courier chess board in Ströbeck, Germany. It remains on display today at the Ströbeck chess museum.
1821 H. G. Albers from Lüneburg writes that courier chess is played in the Ströbeck area.
1825 Visitors to Ströbeck report that the game of courier chess has been forgotten there.
1831 Author and chess master William Lewis visits Ströbeck and reports "the Courier Game is now seldom played at Stroebeck". He describes the moves of the queen and bishop (the ancient moves), and notes that the pieces, man (sage) and fool (jester), are now both "state counselors".
1885 The First Harzer chess congress is held in Ströbeck. A courier chess match is included in the program.
1943 Van Leyden’s painting of courier chess is moved to an air-raid shelter
1945, March The Führer personally orders certain prized paintings be moved to safety outside of Berlin, van Leyden’s painting being among them.
1945 General Patton’s Third Army finds van Leyden’s painting among many treausures stashed 2000 feet underground in a salt mine. The painting is taken to National Gallery of Art in Washington
D.C.
1948 The painting is returned to Germany, to The Haus der Kunst in Munich
The 2000s ( present )