Who created chess?

@Puzzleandlearning said in #49:
> I want to play Chataranga nooooooooow !!!!

A variant exists on chess.com
Its certainly different, but works

@Brittany_Palomino said in #1:
> This is a learning and intelligence question
chess evolved from ancient chaturanga by transportation of the game among countries when ancient 'salesmen' go to other places to sell goods. chaturanga is indian, so i think chess is found in india based on ancestry.
(idk, i just found out this in the internet a while back)

Maybe it's because of the trading routes, that games got created. Parts were assembled or created from different games to be traded in a city like the city of Lothal. That idea could make the origins of chess date back to over 4000 years.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lothal

Since many things have been pasted down from word of mouth, I would imagine chess started from Southeast Asia. During the The Vedic Sanskrit times (1500 – 600 BCE)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanskrit

The Ashtapada predates chess. So we have a starting date when chess could have been created or built from other games as a variant. An idea or game always comes from something else. The imagination helps creates things.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashtapada
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaturanga

"Chess in the Indian epic poetry" (Press view detailed to read more. Press the numbers to reach the original link)
www.perplexity.ai/?s=u&uuid=8be57a48-1bae-4067-8050-cae3870162df
"Duel between two Indian princes." Sounds like the two sides of the chess pieces.

Shatranj goes back before 760 AD because the pieces already existed back then.
sites.google.com/site/caroluschess/antique-chess-sets

I think, Chess probably originated from a tribe like Kuru and was played in the fields. The chessboard could represent the Kuru territory. From the fields it went into trade centers and go traded to others places in the world.

So when did the first chess set appear in your city or store?

I guess once the AI's have read every thing and dated things in chronical order, it will be able to say the main line of the origines of chess and maybe even the first city it appeared in. If they can trace the cities it appeared in they will find the origins of the city from where the idea came from or the variant it came from.

Merchants play a vital role in the exchange of things. They know how to sell a product even if they don't know how it works or was made. The rules of the games were probably not easy to remember so the merchants probably gave their ideas of how it was played. So they or the users are the cause of the variants to the game. Even today we are still trying to create new variants to the game. From the trading routes to the trading centers, games got created and exchanged with different variants. That makes it near impossible to trace it's origins. Blame it on the ancient trade routes that date back 4000 years.
www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/trade/hd_trade.htm

Thanks @Toscani :)

All these years, I thought it was Al Gore.

http://youtube.com/@shadyantra

Shadyantra was invented in India and Shri Lanka because Shri Lanka was part of india 8800 yrs back.

Initially it was named as Dhyut and cursed by Draupadi and Kalyug. Shadyantra is system and played as per Shadgunya. It is based on 10x10 board called Dashpaad or Dashpada. Chaturanga was evolved from Shadyantra in 200 BC after it was latter was banned. And Chaturanga was played on 8x8 board called Ashtpada or Ashtpaad

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