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The history of chess can be traced back nearly 1,500 years to its ... By the year 1000 it had spread ... including the independently invented rook, ...
c. 720 – Chess spreads across the Islamic world from Persia. c. 840 – Earliest surviving chess problems by Caliph Billah of Baghdad. c. 900 – Entry on Chess in the Chinese work Huan Kwai Lu ('Book of Marvels'). 997 – Versus de scachis is the earliest known work mentioning chess in Christian Western Europe. [2]
Texts referring to the origins of chess date from the beginning of the seventh century. ... By the year 1000, ... Digital chess clocks were invented in 1973, ...
Cox's article, "On the Burmha Game of Chess Compared to the Indian", proposed that the four-handed version of the game was the earliest form of chess. He states that this version "is mentioned in the oldest law books and is said to have been invented by the wife of Ravan", [5] referring to Ravana, the legendary king of Sri Lanka. Cox dates ...
Chess by year (177 C, 68 P) Chess historians (21 P) F. ... Pages in category "History of chess" The following 68 pages are in this category, out of 68 total.
Murray's aim is threefold: to present as complete a record as is possible of the varieties of chess that exist or have existed in different parts of the world; to investigate the ultimate origin of these games and the circumstances of the invention of chess; and to trace the development of the modern European game from the first appearance of its ancestor, the Indian chaturanga, in the ...
Other traditional East Asian Chess variants include Shogi (Japan) and Janggi (Korea). Playing cards or tiles were invented in China [46] as early as the 9th century during the Tang dynasty (618–907). [47] [48] [49] The earliest unambiguous attestation of paper playing cards date back to 1294. [50]
The engine was completed in 1996, and in the same year faced chess champion Garry Kasparov for the first time. Kasparov won the six-game match by the score 4–2., [ 10 ] but this was still the first time a chess engine won a game against the current chess champion in a regular match.