Fun Fact about chess.

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FMLarry

IF EVERYTHING IN THE WORLD WAS PERFECT

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chess wouldn't exist. 

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lemme explain why. 

According to this Ted-Ed video (which is well-animated thx) when the youngest prince of the Gupta empire in the 6th century was killed in battle. His brother made a plan to help the grieving mother. And thus the game of chess was born. IF the world was perfect, there would be no war, the prince wouldn't have died that soon (most likely assuming these people are smart) and thus, the game of chess wouldn't be here. Quite interesting indeed, and you can watch more of the video because it's really nice (not in any way trying to advertise this video I'm using it as a source) and yea... call me a nerd. 

hvenki

pog

ukrainiandude

pog

DrChessWizard

Did anyone read that? If u did well......

DrChessWizard

Im just tooo lazy to read that

hvenki

it's barely a paragraph...

Fixzo

pog

FMLarry
ananthramdas wrote:

Im just tooo lazy to read that

it's not that long ._.

but ok, relatable 

ricorat

So I guess I don’t want the world to be perfect then.......

slimshady

well it is wrong chess dates back even back to ramayana

RamKaushal
It is actually quite insightful. Also if world suddenly becomes perfect then no in accuracy will be made and maybe people won’t play chess because they will MOSTLY get a draw.
TusharPhulera

Chess is good

IsraeliGal

Realistically this is pointless to mention because humanity is not perfect. 

 

 

snoozyman
Fun Fact: Chess is a 2 player game.
Fixzo

Fun Fact: Nobody asked.

Kadenstarr

wow 

 

so if I kill someone

 

i could help invent another great game 😈

mastermulch

Hi

marqumax

If you imagine a perfect utopia, then you'll realise that it cannot be distinguished from a dystopia. Life is miserable without happy moments, but it would also be dull without the sad ones

onecheese2rulethemall

woah woah woah

FMLarry
Kadenstarr wrote:

wow 

 

so if I kill someone

 

i could help invent another great game 😈

Kill someone you'll play the game JailBreak