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how was chess invented?

Chess was invented from a thought. From that thought it polymorphed endemically. It's not the same as it was once and will probably continue to change as it gets mixed with technologies. It might have started undetected for milleniums, but as it was exposed to different countries, it became know under different names and forms, like chess notation.

Where did chess originate from? Asuming your not asking wher ethe name game form, and that your talking about the electronic chess period, then it probably originated in 1962.

www.chess-site.com/articles/making-the-first-chess-computers/

If your talking about a game a millinium life times ago, good luck finding it's maker.
Who knows it might has started on sand with rocks.
Pick the time line that you think originated a game between 2 persons using sand and rocks and that could be the original thought that got the game started 2.5 million years old.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_human_evolution

www.interaction-design.org/literature/article/a-brief-history-of-games
originated in persia and devloped over the course of a thousand years
Royal Game of Ur.

youtu.be/WZskjLq040I

Chess has been brainstorming between families since the beginning of time. Afrasiab Chessmen is the oldest-known chess set. A major change to modern chess was adding a chess clock, back in London 1883. For me that's it's origin with a chess clock and anything before that, is its chess ancestry origins, like when the Queen could only move one square at a time or when there was no pawn promotions. Obviously not the same rules. So if you want the origins with the same rules it only goes back a century.

Chess was invented with the human mind and with what ever material they had around.
Interesting origins ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shatranj
i have read many stories about it but don't know which is true...

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