The oldest recorded medieval Chess/Shatranj Games

Sort:
Fuchs54

For the last few days i have been trying to get a more or less complete list of all completly documented chess games before the year 1600. So far i did come up with this:

Abu-Bakr Muhammed Ben Yahya as-Suli vs Abu’l- Faraj bin al-Muzaffar bin Sa’-id
~ 920

Yahya as-Suli vs Caliph al-Muqtadir
~ 920

Castellvi vs Vinyoles
1475

P Damiano vs NN
1497

NN vs Lucena
1497

P Damiano vs NN
1512

Lucena vs Quintana
1515

Ruy Lopez vs G da Cutri
1560

Ruy Lopez vs G da Cutri
1560

Busnardo vs NN
1570

G Saduleto vs Polerio
1575

Scovara vs P Boi
1575

G da Cutri vs Ruy Lopez
1575

G da Cutri vs Ruy Lopez
1575

Castiglio vs Polerio
1575

Polerio vs Lorenzo
1580

Polerio vs NN
1581

Polerio vs Busnardo
1590

Benavides vs G Saduleto
1590

Busnardo vs NN
1590

G Saduleto vs Polerio
1590

Polerio vs G da Cutri
1590

(the games can be found

here; https://www.chess.com/forum/view/game-showcase/the-oldest-chess-game-recorded

here; https://www.chess.com/forum/view/game-showcase/the-second-oldest-chess-shatranj-game-registered-recorded

and beside that i found most of the other games mentioned in the chessgames database, here; https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess.pl?yearcomp=le&year=1600&playercomp=either&pid=&player=&pid2=&player2=&movescomp=exactly&moves=&opening=&eco=&result= )

Anyway, as you can see there is a pretty big gap between the year 920 and the famous "Scachs d'amor" from 1475 (wich is known for being the first documented chess game with the modern queen moves)

i would be more than happy if people who know more about this topic than me could try and fill in the gaps.

barfus9999

I would love to actually see the records of some of these games to get an idea of what they looked like

tygxc

https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1259987

Brendan_Chess
Woahh
barfus9999

Tygxc: I am talking about the actual way the game was written down back then. Not a 2023 version of that using algebraic notation that did not exist back then (nor descriptive notation either IIRC). I mean a photo/image of what was actually used to record the game 500-600 years ago.

theRonster456

You can do a search on oldest chess literature and check images. There's lots of the documents shown there.