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A brief history of chess - Alex Gendler
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The attacking infantry advances steadily,
their elephants already having broken the defensive line.
The king tries to retreat, but enemy cavalry flanks him from the rear.
Escape is impossible.
But this isn’t a real war–
nor is it just a game.
Over the roughly one-and-a-half millennia of its existence,
chess has been known as a tool of military strategy,
a metaphor for human affairs, and a benchmark of genius.
While our earliest records of chess are in the 7th century,
legend tells that the game’s origins lie a century earlier.
Supposedly, when the youngest prince of the Gupta Empire was killed in battle,
his brother devised a way of representing the scene to their grieving mother.
Set on the 8x8 ashtapada board used for other popular pastimes,
a new game emerged with two key features:
different rules for moving different types of pieces,
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