Chess was invented in the 6th Century in India during the Gupta reign but I was wondering how chess has developed since then. All I know is that you used to have to warn your opponent if you were attacking their Queen.

Any other facts?  Maybe we could play a game that involves these rules?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_chess

chess is developed for making stretegies in war and they just make plans for set a trap in the war. they do demosntration at their place through chess.

Chess Players are also good at sport tactics as they can think moves ahead

I heard that back in the day you could only moves pawns one square...even on their first move

Yes, in early chess the pawns only moved one square on every turn, and both the queen and bishop were considerable weaker that they are in the modern game. Here's what the wikipedia says:

In early chess the moves of the pieces were:

• King: as now.
• Queen: one square diagonally, only.
• Bishop:Knight: as now.
  • In the version that went into Persia: two squares diagonally (no more or less), but could jump over a piece between
  • In a version sometimes found in India in former times: two squares sideways or front-and-back (no more or less), but could jump over a piece between.
  • In versions found in Southeast Asia: one square diagonally, or one square forwards.
• Rook: as now.
• Pawn: one square forwards (not two), capturing one square diagonally forward; promoted to queen only.

In some forms of the early game, there were strict rules against stalemate. In fact, the player who stalemated his opponent lost! So all those forum poster who complain about stalemate being a draw don't know how lucky they are!

Thanks for the thread.

Other points: the pieces had different associations as Iran was the place of origin, the "knight", "rook", "bishop" etc., were different, these have Western connotations.  In Asia there were different war animals and civil/military authorities of which chess provided symbolic transference.

I wrote a piece, "The transmissibility of chess as a discipline" where I talked about the symbolic significance of the pieces and their associations, etc..  

Thank you everyone for the response maybe we could as chess.com if we could try and play online! With the ancient rules.

Eleanor - the engine that drives chess.com won't let you play by the ancient rules.  However, if you can find a willing opponent, I know that Shatranj, the precursor of Chess in which pieces moved as described in this thread, is playable at iggamecenter.com, a free site.

Several other historical chess variations are also available there.

Very interesting forum Eleanor. Thankyou.

I recently read a book that deals with this topic: Birth of the Chess Queen, by Marilyn Yalom.  It gives the history of chess and the names of the pieces (as well as their moves) of "normal" chess, as opposed to the changes that allowed the game to go nuclear ("Queen's" chess).  If you are interested in this thread, I believe you'd love this book.

it hasn't developed!  ;)

uh-oh...

Andy, thanks for that.  Actually my article had nothing to do with psychology.

It discussed how the analytical tools of chess can be applied to other disciplines, and also talked about possible symbolic significance of the pieces and their relationships.  I'm sure there have been many people who have done much better. 

BTW, Krogius' book was quite good. 

http://www.amazon.com/Psychology-Chess-Nikolai-Krogius/dp/0890580235

Sam Sloan thinks chess was invented in China.  Just sayin'.

Amy

The powerful

The powerful Queen was introduce in Italy in the 17th century.I read that.