Where Did Chess Come From?

caw caw caw crows invented chess!

i think wiki is accurate about history of chess , i wonder if ancient chess is as much fun as modern chess... and  there is also chinese chess so what is the history of that variation?

maybe chess comes from Mars? 

crows castle by lifting the king, placing it beside the rook, and then grabbing the rook with his talons and bring it over the king. simple 

yargh!!! crows invented chess with their fellow rooks*!

*rooks are birds that look alot like crows. search it up!

Wikipedia is surely no more slanted than the encyclopedias it has replaced, which had an even narrower editorial bias.  The difference is that now, when someone tries to pass bad information, it's public.  "History is written by the victors" is no longer entirely true.

More interesting question might be what did the pieces in each country look like and how did they change over the years?

Using that logic, you could say American football was invented in China because Chinese civilization is older than American civilization.

haha, we need more schlemiels in the academy. Perfectly serious. And, what Scottrf said. 

Chess originated in India as Chaturanga.

The name comes from a battle formation mentioned in the Indian epic Mahabharata , referring to four divisions of an army, namely elephants , chariots, cavalry and infantry.

The pieces were:

K - King (Raja)

Q - General (Mantri or Senapati)

R - Chariot (Rath)

B - Elephant (Hathi)

N - Cavalry (Ghoda)

P - infantry (Paidal)

Actually,football was invented in China, but it was called Chinese football, only it was actually a form of handball,and the builders of theGreat wall would play it against the wall for fun.Saw it in wikipedia

chess originated with Jimi Hendrix, as did all things worth remembering (did I forget something?).

Or maybe it was with Tal, the Hendrix of chess. Chessdrix. Talchess. Drixtal. Sounds like an oral decongestant. stopsdrips. Dripsstoptal. Drix. Drips. Stop. STOP I sez, and drops. Dropsy. Loopsy Daisy. Genna Sosonko. Who? You said it. Who sed it? I diz. Did. Time to go to sleep. Diz. Is. I said. Doze. Who knows? Hendrix doze. Does. He knows. Doze. You already sed it. I knows. Doze. Good night. Noze. Love this site. He knows.  

beautiful. Yes! No longer 'entirely'. Perfect. Big like. Plus two. 

Well, when a King and a Queen love each other very much and get married, they...

Yes! I heard the same story once, it was in the 'yard' in primary school! 

einstein99's question is a good one, about what the original chess pieces look like. I saw the Shroud of Tal-inn, and it looked like a magician. Authenticity is still being established. But there are believers. You're either with them, or...you know...not with...them...

good point btickler btw chinese or indian ... i think both created games that looked like chess . both cultures have a long history and i bet they traded a long time surely they even traded games and games changed because of trading

Chess was invented in china because it says on my box: Made in China.

I thought that was really funny...nobody else?

The whole 'chess history' topic is as flawed and fake as the so called moon landing. There are a lot of recent studies and research that clearly proves chess was developed in the west as a past time ,as recently as 300 years ago,to pacify people and keep them docile. Google ' The truth about Chess'Just because someone wrote a ' history' doesn't mean it's true. The entire 'chess history' was made up to give chess a mystical and ancient flare.People are gullible enough to believe everything they read from a few sources. If India or China came up with it they would have the best players and most GM's and we would still be calling the pieces all kinds of Indian/Chinese names.

So it was invented In China?

Persia