Is Chess from the future?

Indeed they were, if it were possible to be civilised without chess. Do not forget, we are discussing chess and its origins. Your version relies upon Muslims, although your Wikiknowledge is too thin to recognize the connections.

The Europeans took an existing game and improved it. You don't claim that the Wright brothers didn't invent the airplane because they didn't invent the jet engine or stealth technology, do you?

So  this was going to happen no matter what!

All is explained

I think you're understanding the question differently from everyone else. If you ask who invented the modern version of the game we know as chess, then of course you're right and it was the Spaniards 500 years ago or whenever it was.

But most people, when they ask who invented chess, aren't talking about the modern version of the game. They want to know where the earlier forms of the game that modern chess evolved from came from, which apparently was originally somewhere in India.

Actually, Chess has been around for quite a while, from ancient India in the form of a four player game called Chaturanga. It then originated to Persia, where it was modified and renamed as Shatranj, extremely similar to the game we know today. The only things that were different were the movements of the Queen and the Bishop ( which are known as Minister and Elephant, respectively in Persian, now modern day Iran). The pawn's movement was also different in the sense that it could not move two spaces forward on its first move, and en passent did not exist.

Later, in Spain, sometime in the 12th century, the Queen was given the freedom of movement that is possesses today, most likely as an influence of Queen Isabella of Castiel. The first checkered chess board also appeared around that time. I can't recall when the pawn moves were finally set right as we know them today- it may have been around that time or later in the renaissance.

The primitive people of the past, probably never expected chess to develop into such a technical and complicated game!

Is the name really that important? It's not a different game in Russia just because it's called shakhmaty. Even if the name was changed when it was copied from Chaturanga, and then some rules were changed too, that's still where it came from originally. The Europeans took an existing game and improved it a lot. But you can at least give some credit to the Arabs who gave them the idea in the first place.

Other than that, I pretty much agree with what you wrote. Europe has been mostly ahead of the rest of the world for centuries, and just because they sometimes misused the power that gave them is no reason to pretend that they weren't.

I think its silly to imagine that there is a future, WW3 is coming soon, and we have yet to time travel. 

The earliest predecessor of chess probably originated in India. That game evolved into modern chess in Europe. The rules changed. The movement of some of the pieces changed. The queen, which was originaly called the "ferz", could only move one square diagonally! There was no double pawn move or en passent. Yes, the oldest variation of modern chess originated in India, but the game we play today developed in Europe.

I'd like to see FoS expound further on the word chess. That would be interesting. It is abundantly clear that his Wikiknowledge kicks H.J. R. Murray's butt.

possibly :p

Yo, Five, since you know everything, you can settle something. My cousin tells me that I write a check to pay my bills because the Persian word for king is shah. I think he's been smoking some legal marijuana.

Avoidance! Good strategy when you don't know what you're talking about. A little historical etymology would serve you well.

Of course, you already know that "historical etymology" is a pleonasm. I need not tell you that.

He does, doesn't he.

Of course. That's because you cannot distinguish a mirror from a window.

You could admit that you don't know more than a few tidbits about the games that have been called Schach, des Echecs, Skak, Ajedrez, ..., and also that you lack any genuine historical perspective concerning the game through the centuries.

That you do not know the financial history of Great Britain vis-a-vis the game of chess has already been made abundantly clear by your blank stare and general avoidance.

When faced with an oblique stoner who knows more history than you do, you retreat into an unrelated topic that you can Google. My fictional cousin thinks you've been sniffing the model paints used on plastic aeroplanes. 

The word is "asseverate."  Don't hurt yourself.  

Ironic.

I suppose that you could pronounce "financial" as four syllables, although most dictionaries have it as three, as they do most of the other long words in the post that offended you. I'm very sorry that you find such long words so intimidating. Oops. Intimidating is polysyllabic. 

So according to the logic presented here by FiveOfSwords the NBA didn't play basketball before the late 1970s, since that's when they adopted modern rules such as the 3 point line. Before that they played a different game.

  He's been known to run and cry to moderators.  Not sure why, but they actually yank threads because he gets offended, and by words like "financial," no less.