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When was chess invented

Updated By Sameer Bedar
On 6 August 2022


                                    Chess is a two player game, also referred to as Western chess or international chess. It was first played in India about the 4th century AD, known as Chaturanga. Chaturanga is considered to be the world's oldest form of contemporary chess, having been invented in the 4th century A.D. Chaturanga means 'quadripartite' (split into four parts) in Sanskrit, and it was also used to describe the Indian army of the Vedic era, which consisted of four sections: one elephant, one chariot, three men on horseback, and five foot-soldiers. Four-handed Chaturanga and Two-handed Chaturanga are two well-known variations. We only consider the Two-handed Chaturanga because modern chess is essentially two-handed. Shatranj is the second known chess variant, and it evolved from Chaturanga with a few minor tweaks.

The game first appeared in Persia during the 6th century A.D., and it remained extremely popular for the next nine centuries throughout the Arabic world before being superseded by mediaeval games. Chess was played in a variety of ways throughout mediaeval times. The rules of 44 variations are recorded in a 13th-century document. New chess is a successor to Medieval chess, which was invented around the 16th century and is distinguished by the Queen and Bishop's heightened powers. It was played until the contemporary regulations were established (of the present chess).

Stages of transformation
The first stage involves the creation of a chess-like game, which is a primitive form of chess with a moderate search-space complexity and game refinement. The second stage (from Chaturanga to Medieval I) is marked by an increase in the length of the game and the intricacy of the search space. As a result, the game becomes more calculation-based rather than insight-based, posing a challenge to human capacity. Furthermore, because of the increased complexity, these evolutionary modifications reduce the refinement measure. Many versions have been generated at this point.

Another evolutionary phase began when the complexity of the search space was great enough. The refinement measure is increased for the sake of the complexity measure in the third stage (from Medieval I to contemporary Chess). The inclusion of the powerful Queen and the promotion rule, in particular, has resulted in an increase in game refinement from Medieval III to New Chess, while at the same time, the search-space complexity has lowered significantly due to the presence of the powerful Queen and the promotion rule. The Queen increases the game's potential attack/defence while also increasing the chances of a checkmate. Most versions were outsourced during this process, and only a few have remained to this day. The surviving varieties refined the game rules to increase the entertainment value, making the depth of look ahead (i.e., the intellectual part of games) more important for the game's transformation. Large and complex games, according to experienced players, are unappealing, but intriguing and pleasant games have greater entertainment value. Finally, the evolutionary process has resulted in the current version of chess, which appears to strike a good balance between search-space complexity and entertainment value. Modern chess is a well-developed and well-optimized game. Later breakthroughs in the twenty-first century made the use of computer analysis considerably superior to any human player's abilities available to the general public. Online gaming, which first became popular in the mid-1990s, has continued to grow in popularity in the twenty-first century.


When was the chess first invented?
The earliest form of the game that's now called chess can be dated back to India in the sixth century. 1. Like the modern game, this predecessor, called chaturanga (or catur) was played on an 8x8 grid and featured pieces generally similar to those of modern chess. 

How old is chess the game?
Chess, as we know it today, was born out of the Indian game chaturanga before the 600s AD. The game spread throughout Asia and Europe over the coming centuries, and eventually evolved into what we know as chess around the 16th century. One of the first masters of the game was a Spanish priest named Ruy Lopez.


Was chess invented by a man?

The legend says that chess was invented around 200 B.C. by a commander, Hán Xin, who invented the game to represent a particular battle. Soon after the battle, an important battle in Chinese history, the game was forgotten and then resurfaced in the 7th century A.D. with several new rules.

Who is the god of chess?

Caïssa, the legendary mythological creature, is now known as the Goddess of Chess, and was later notoriously described in a poem called Caïssa written in 1763 by English poet and philologist Sir William Jones.
What is the weakest chess piece?
Pawn is the weakest piece on the chessboard, it is worth one point (1 point = 1 pawn).


What was chess originally called?

Chaturanga was flourishing in northwestern India by the 7th century and is regarded as the earliest precursor of modern chess because it had two key features found in all later chess variants—different pieces had different powers (unlike checkers and go), and victory was based on one piece, the king of modern chess.

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