“Chess played with human bodies”
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Mar 23, 2021
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Interesting idea, but I think it would just become another kind of chess tournament. The Olympics are supposed to be non-professionals competing. For olympic chess that would basically be non-titled, non-paid players.
Well they used to have Servants play the roles of Knight,Bishop,Pawns,Rooks and etc.
The King would signal from his palace to move the “pieces”. And this was a huge Spectator Sport in Ancient to Medieval India. If everything is a sport nowadays, This definitely has rich History and Marketability of Becoming a Huge Spectator sport.
The King would signal from his palace to move the “pieces”. And this was a huge Spectator Sport in Ancient to Medieval India. If everything is a sport nowadays, This definitely has rich History and Marketability of Becoming a Huge Spectator sport.
*Correction,
It wasn’t Chess, it was Chaturanga and it was the common ancestor of Modern Chess, however The Same thing can be done with a ChessCourt
It wasn’t Chess, it was Chaturanga and it was the common ancestor of Modern Chess, however The Same thing can be done with a ChessCourt
You can see this at some renaissance fairs. As long as the taken pieces just walk off the board it is fine. There was an article some time back on this.
https://www.chess.com/article/view/living-chess-the-golden-age
Who is the Top Prospect in International Chess right now?
I heard about Indian kings playing chess with their servants on Huge Acre long Chess Arenas, could this type of sport have a comeback?