History of Chess

Chess has existed for more than 500 years and was used as a game for entertainment but was also used for military training and advocated that officers and generals use their strategy rather than trying to use all their troops (which means more deaths) to assault a position. Its earliest records were when the youngest prince in the Gupta Empire (India, 600 ad) was killed and his brother needed a way to represent the scene where the Prince died to his mother. The 8 x 8 board ashtapada board was used (it was used commonly in other games). It was unique due to its rules of moving different pieces and is a symbol of human ingenuity. Chess unlike other games required forward-thinking, strategy, and needs skills, in general, to be good at it. The prince called it chaturanga (Sanskrit for 4 divisions or factions). Then it spread to the Persian empire by merchants and that's where it got the name chess. The name came from the word Shah and Shat mat or checkmate. (The king and the king is helpless). When the Arabians conquered Persia, chess spread through the Arab world. This is where it was starting to be used as a game to train officers and later even a source of symbolic poetry. Al Masudi , a mathematician, called a testament to human free will compared to games of chance. It spread to china and many other countries along the silk road. Many variants popped including Chinese chess. In Europe, it took its modern form and was taught to nobles as a courtly game.(1000 ad). It was used to represent social classes. A lot of pieces were changed. The church didn't like the game. Chess even got banned in France at one point. The advisor was later replaced by the queen. New rules were made and it was cohering into the form we know today. Chess theory was born. Chess up until this point was the rich man or nobleman's game. Now it was changing to everybody's game. In the 1900's was when competitive chess emerged. It even had a geopolitical role during the cold war as the soviets were almost undefeated for a long time. It represented that the Soviets were smarter then the rest. But know a new challenger arrived. IBM's famous computer called deep blue beat Gary Kasparov in 1997, revolutionizing the chess world.  

THIS IS NOT MY RESEARCH IT IS FROM TED-ED I JUST SUMMARIZED IT
Here is the link to their video a "Brief History of Chess"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeB-1F-UKO0