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The history of chess can be traced back nearly 1,500 years to its earliest known predecessor, called chaturanga, in India; its prehistory is the subject of speculation. From India it spread to Persia, where it was modified in terms of shapes and rules and developed into Shatranj.
Chess in medieval Europe was played in monasteries and at feudal courts. An exception is Ströbeck, known as the "chess village", [1] where chess became popular among the farmers in the early 11th century already.
The chessmen were discovered in early 1831 in a sandbank at the head of Uig Bay on the west coast of the Isle of Lewis, in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. There are various local stories concerning their arrival and modern discovery on Lewis.
30 lip 2012 · In this collection of essays, scholars investigate chess texts from numerous traditions – English, French, German, Latin, Persian, Spanish, Swedish, and Catalan – and argue that knowledge of chess is essential to understanding medieval culture.
29 paź 2024 · With the new queen and bishop powers, the trench warfare of medieval chess was replaced by a game in which checkmate could be delivered in as few as two moves. The last two major changes in the rules—castling and the en passant capture—took longer to win acceptance.
17 lis 2016 · Among these, the most remarkable, by far, is the chess queen. For their chess matches, medieval Europeans surprisingly replaced the vizier—the traditional male adviser to the king long known in Persian and Islamic tradition—with a queen.
30 lip 2012 · In this collection of essays, scholars investigate chess texts from numerous traditions – English, French, German, Latin, Persian, Spanish, Swedish, and Catalan – and argue that knowledge of...
