A brief history of chess - Alex Gendler
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Date: 2020-08-22
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On the sixth century the youngest prince in the family of the Gupta Empire died in battle. His brother represented the battle to his mother on an 8 by 8 Ashtapada board. He then thought of a game, Chaturanga (Four Divisions. There were pieces like Pawns (moves 1 square forward, 1 to 2 on first move but attacks 1 diagonally, Rook (any amount of squares orthogonally, King (1 square orthogonally or diagonally, Knight (moves in an L shape pattern, 2 horizontally and one vertically or 2 vertically and 1 horizontally, Elephant (moves any amount of squares diagonally) and Adviser/Ferz (one square diagonally. It then went to Persia and was called Chess from Shah (meaning king in Persian) and checkmate was from shah mat (meaning the king is helpless, also in the Persian language. Chess was taken up by the Muslim world when the Arabs vanquished Persia. It went over Asia like China, Japan and Mongolia. Chinese Chess pieces were places on intersections of board squares, not inside them. After taking a piece in Japanese Chess, you could be use used by the opposing players. The fall of Mongolian leader, Tamerlane, saw an 11 by 10 board with safe squares named citadels. By 1000 AD chess spread to Europe Moves and pieces begin to change. The Elephant was called a Bishop. Chess players were spending to much time to the game, it was even briefly banned in France. 1500 AD it began to change even more, the weak Adviser/Ferz was recasted into a Queen (any square orthogonally or diagonally. The game have more power and strategies. It accelerated the game. Studies analysing common openings and end games revealed. Chess was born. Chess players began to be more creative in battle with lethal plays. In 1851 the first sacrifice game was played (by Adolf Anderssen. He gave up a queen and 2 rooks to deliver checkmate. In 1883 the first chess clock was invented and used. In 1997 Deep Blue (chess engine) managed to defeat Gary Kasparov, the first time a computer successfully conquered a champion (Grand master rating and world the best chess player at the time. Now computers can beat any of the world champions.
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On the sixth century the youngest prince in the family of the Gupta Empire died in battle. His brother represented the battle to his mother on an 8 by 8 Ashtapada board. He then thought of a game, Chaturanga (Four Divisions. There were pieces like Pawns (moves 1 square forward, 1 to 2 on first move but attacks 1 diagonally, Rook (any amount of squares orthogonally, King (1 square orthogonally or diagonally, Knight (moves in an L shape pattern, 2 horizontally and one vertically or 2 vertically and 1 horizontally, Elephant (moves any amount of squares diagonally) and Adviser/Ferz (one square diagonally. It then went to Persia and was called Chess from Shah (meaning king in Persian) and checkmate was from shah mat (meaning the king is helpless, also in the Persian language. Chess was taken up by the Muslim world when the Arabs vanquished Persia. It went over Asia like China, Japan and Mongolia. Chinese Chess pieces were places on intersections of board squares, not inside them. After taking a piece in Japanese Chess, you could be use used by the opposing players. The fall of Mongolian leader, Tamerlane, saw an 11 by 10 board with safe squares named citadels. By 1000 AD chess spread to Europe Moves and pieces begin to change. The Elephant was called a Bishop. Chess players were spending to much time to the game, it was even briefly banned in France. 1500 AD it began to change even more, the weak Adviser/Ferz was recasted into a Queen (any square orthogonally or diagonally. The game have more power and strategies. It accelerated the game. Studies analysing common openings and end games revealed. Chess was born. Chess players began to be more creative in battle with lethal plays. In 1851 the first sacrifice game was played (by Adolf Anderssen. He gave up a queen and 2 rooks to deliver checkmate. In 1883 the first chess clock was invented and used. In 1997 Deep Blue (chess engine) managed to defeat Gary Kasparov, the first time a computer successfully conquered a champion (Grand master rating and world the best chess player at the time. Now computers can beat any of the world champions.
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Pedro
When Kasparov and Deep Blue played for the first time, Kasparov won with a global score of 4-2.
In the rematch, Deep Blue was assisted by other chess players, that's why Kasparov and his team believed it was fraudulent, but it just demonstrated that computer where already at the same level as the best performing human.
Nowadays even free software can outperform Grand Masters, and professional software running in super computers are unbeatable, they even have their own tournaments.
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When Kasparov and Deep Blue played for the first time, Kasparov won with a global score of 4-2.
In the rematch, Deep Blue was assisted by other chess players, that's why Kasparov and his team believed it was fraudulent, but it just demonstrated that computer where already at the same level as the best performing human.
Nowadays even free software can outperform Grand Masters, and professional software running in super computers are unbeatable, they even have their own tournaments.
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Flickering
18th Century:
Royal Figure 1: Checkmate.
Royal Figure 2: Oh. I see. Fancy a cup of tea?
Royal Figure 1: Yes Indeed.
Nowadays:
Some Chess Scholar: Checkmate.
Guy at Coffee Shop: Dammit.
Some Chess Scholar: You alright budd-
Guy at Coffee Shop:
YOU LITTLE PEICE OF SHI-
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18th Century:
Royal Figure 1: Checkmate.
Royal Figure 2: Oh. I see. Fancy a cup of tea?
Royal Figure 1: Yes Indeed.
Nowadays:
Some Chess Scholar: Checkmate.
Guy at Coffee Shop: Dammit.
Some Chess Scholar: You alright budd-
Guy at Coffee Shop:
YOU LITTLE PEICE OF SHI-
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Riddhi
While there is mention of Gupta Dynasty inventing chess and words originating from Sanskrit words, no mention that all this happened in India. In the entire video, there is no mention of the country name where chess originated. Very disappointing and offensive: (
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While there is mention of Gupta Dynasty inventing chess and words originating from Sanskrit words, no mention that all this happened in India. In the entire video, there is no mention of the country name where chess originated. Very disappointing and offensive: (
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Sapphire321123
This is fascinating, but it leaves out the ancient and modern variants using a round or ring-shaped board, which I find most fascinating and which bear some historical significance. There are also 3-player and 3-d variants, though those are more modern.
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This is fascinating, but it leaves out the ancient and modern variants using a round or ring-shaped board, which I find most fascinating and which bear some historical significance. There are also 3-player and 3-d variants, though those are more modern.
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Ehibika
I do wonder, is it possible for there to be a tabletop game that encourages bold moves and dramatic flair over raw tactics while still having a win condition to strive for? or is the metagame inevitable when such a thing as a win condition exists?
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I do wonder, is it possible for there to be a tabletop game that encourages bold moves and dramatic flair over raw tactics while still having a win condition to strive for? or is the metagame inevitable when such a thing as a win condition exists?
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George
There's so much Bharat(India) has given to the world, Ancient Bharatiya (Indians) didn't patent anything which is useful for humankind. This is India.
Don't ask what India can learn from world, but what more world can learn from Bharat!
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There's so much Bharat(India) has given to the world, Ancient Bharatiya (Indians) didn't patent anything which is useful for humankind. This is India.
Don't ask what India can learn from world, but what more world can learn from Bharat!
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Rana
When someone asks who invented this and that.
And if I do not know the answer, I simply say ancient Indians. Most of the time the answer becomes correct.
As a chess player, I pay my tribute to the genius prince of Gupta Empire.
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When someone asks who invented this and that.
And if I do not know the answer, I simply say ancient Indians. Most of the time the answer becomes correct.
As a chess player, I pay my tribute to the genius prince of Gupta Empire.
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education
Just because written records of chess theory have not been recovered from India and Persia, that doesn't mean chess theory didn't exist until the Europeans discovered it.
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Just because written records of chess theory have not been recovered from India and Persia, that doesn't mean chess theory didn't exist until the Europeans discovered it.
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Vaughn
Does anyone else want to play those historic Asian versions of chess?
Side note, in the Japanese version the guy looks like Sokka in ATLA.
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Does anyone else want to play those historic Asian versions of chess?
Side note, in the Japanese version the guy looks like Sokka in ATLA.
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