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A brief history of chess - Alex Gendler

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B1

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Untertitel (78 Segmente)

00:07

The attacking infantry advances steadily,

00:10

their elephants already having broken the defensive line.

00:14

The king tries to retreat, but enemy cavalry flanks him from the rear.

00:19

Escape is impossible.

00:23

But this isn’t a real war–

00:25

nor is it just a game.

00:27

Over the roughly one-and-a-half millennia of its existence,

00:32

chess has been known as a tool of military strategy,

00:35

a metaphor for human affairs, and a benchmark of genius.

00:41

While our earliest records of chess are in the 7th century,

00:45

legend tells that the game’s origins lie a century earlier.

00:50

Supposedly, when the youngest prince of the Gupta Empire was killed in battle,

00:55

his brother devised a way of representing the scene to their grieving mother.

01:00

Set on the 8x8 ashtapada board used for other popular pastimes,

01:06

a new game emerged with two key features:

01:10

different rules for moving different types of pieces,

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