Buddha and Chess?

I was just thinking.  Chess was invented in India about 2500 years ago. The Buddha taught mostly in India, about 2500 years ago. Coincidence? I was just curious if anyone knows of any mention of the two together?

I thought chess was more like 1500 years ago.

Yeah, Chess is no way 2500 years old....

Good ol Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess

Seems legit.  There's definitely a connection.

It was aliens

Are you kidding? If ol' Gautama sat around playing chess, he never would have come up with Buddhism.

I'm about as bright as a 1 watt light bulb...turned off.  I don't know where I got 2500 years from.

I think Buddha would advise us to focus on the space between the pieces.

Nah OP, don't listen to that spelling Nazi!  I consider your thread title a tribute to this fine organization:

Obviously, I just did that. 

I used to do judo

and now I do jo du

I don't know what that means

now have some more tofu

Buddah is what Paula Deen uses to make cereal.

Misspelled titles are one of the joys of chess.com

See, I knew the right way to spell it, but I wanted to bring joy to chess.com.  Yeah, that's it.