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Where Did Chess Come From?

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Elizabeth_Teri_Baker

What came first.. chess or checkers?

einstein99

Checkers startbin checkerslavakia I think.

PCarbonell

Chess come from Asia, Persia. The arabs bring the game to Spain and aftewards to Europe. Alfonso X El sabio wrote a book about that play "EL libro de las partidas"  in the midle age 

einstein99

Chess came from chessland which is next to checkerslavakia.

Elizabeth_Teri_Baker
einstein99 wrote:

Chess came from chessland which is next to checkerslavakia.

LOL

arborealwombat

I think i'm going to have to check that one

josh707
AkhandPSingh wrote:

In reality chess came first from India to St.Pitersberg then that place was given name chessland.

Thats kind of funny

Elizabeth_Teri_Baker
tkbunny wrote:

Finally someone with a serious sense of humor. We badly needed someone to tell us whats funny and whats not.

If this was Facebook I would have liked that comment

josh707

So chess came from india but was changed around by other countries?

Elizabeth_Teri_Baker
josh707 wrote:

So chess came from india but was changed around by other countries?

message to josh ;)

ConnorMacleod_151

I thought i was gonna learn something in this thread...

.... but its full of kids

Frown

josh707
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josh707

Can we please stop fooling around and actually get to some points here and stop all the jokes?

ConnorMacleod_151

Ok... i'm the only sensible one on this site...so...

Once upon a time.... in a far distance land...

konhidras

Okay here it is , My uncle says it came from india and was named chatarunga or something but the catch was, that the pieces have heads that wobble like an indian bollwood dance and players find it difficult to concentrate so they change em.

josh707

OK

ConnorMacleod_151
konhidras wrote:

Okay here it is , My uncle says it came from india and was named chatarunga or something but the catch was, that the pieces have heads that wobble like an indian bollwood dance and players find it difficult to concentrate so they change em.

yes... and the princess wanted to become Queen.... she fell asleep and never woke up again.... until....

Elizabeth_Teri_Baker

Ok.. he said India! Done! what more do you want to learn? He said it hundreds of times

josh707

Nothin really

konhidras
Elizabeth_Teri_Baker wrote:

Ok.. he said India! Done! what more do you want to learn? He said it hundreds of times

I really wonder what would chess now be really like had the wobbling heads of the pieces persisted? hmmmmm.....Jhai-ho!