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@hydrophilic, The history of chess can be traced back nearly 1500 years, although the earliest origins are uncertain. The earliest predecessor of the game probably originated in India, by the 7th century AD. From India, the game spread to Persia. When the Arabs conquered Persia, chess was taken up by the Muslim world and subsequently spread to Southern Europe. In Europe, chess evolved into roughly its current form in the 15th century.

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Early chess rules and pieces were changed from the game chaturanga around the 6th century and was invented in India.

Thank you very much.

Now we got that out of the way, can someone tell me why chess is called chess?

Smash-Series_YT

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Ordinary people- Chess was invented in India
Legendary people- Chess was invented by myself when i saw the first chess piece😂😂😂

Ordinary people- Chess was invented in India Legendary people- Chess was invented by myself when i saw the first chess piece😂😂😂

India, around 600 AD

@Smash-Series_YT Interesting.

MrSzachista edited

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Chess was invented in the 80s by a guy called Garri Chess. He dominated the game named after him until his retirement. Later he changed his name to Kasparov because the fame was too much for him.

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@AnishPat Roughly as follows. In Persian the words "shah mat" mean "the king is dead". In "shah", the second h is pronounced a bit like a hard "ch", as at the beginning of "character". As chess was passed through cultures, the word "shah" for the King piece was adopted as the name for the game, with modifications accounting for local language. Eventually the game was taken up by the French, who call the game "echecs", and then the English, who bastardized this into "checks", and "chess". So in short, the name "chess" can legitimately be argued to mean "the game of kings", since the word itself can be traced back to a word meaning "king". "Shah mat" became "checkmate".

As indicated, this is also the origin of the word "check": back when it was customary for people to actually say his word to their opponents, it was used to mean "King", as in "I'm attacking your King". It too comes from the word "shah". And the word "cheque" (or "check" in American English), as in what you might deposit at a bank, also comes from chess: in England there is an important government role, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whose job is to decide lots of things to do with the money of the country, and hundreds of years ago, when the role was first invented, the Chancellor had a special desk made on which to do all of this accounting, which had a checkerboard design on it - and that's where the name "Chancellor of the Exchequer" comes from, and from there the notion of a cheque. The difference is spelling merely comes from a lack of standardization at the time.

@AnishPat Roughly as follows. In Persian the words "shah mat" mean "the king is dead". In "shah", the second h is pronounced a bit like a hard "ch", as at the beginning of "character". As chess was passed through cultures, the word "shah" for the King piece was adopted as the name for the game, with modifications accounting for local language. Eventually the game was taken up by the French, who call the game "echecs", and then the English, who bastardized this into "checks", and "chess". So in short, the name "chess" can legitimately be argued to mean "the game of kings", since the word itself can be traced back to a word meaning "king". "Shah mat" became "checkmate". As indicated, this is also the origin of the word "check": back when it was customary for people to actually say his word to their opponents, it was used to mean "King", as in "I'm attacking your King". It too comes from the word "shah". And the word "cheque" (or "check" in American English), as in what you might deposit at a bank, also comes from chess: in England there is an important government role, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whose job is to decide lots of things to do with the money of the country, and hundreds of years ago, when the role was first invented, the Chancellor had a special desk made on which to do all of this accounting, which had a checkerboard design on it - and that's where the name "Chancellor of the Exchequer" comes from, and from there the notion of a cheque. The difference is spelling merely comes from a lack of standardization at the time.