what country created the game of chess

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was it india?  china? Africa? etc.

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india

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_chess#Origin

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China. At least a thousand years before India.

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No one knows for certain, but it is thought that the game which eventually evolved IN to modern chess came from India initially. Though many believe it originated in China first and migrated to India. Fact is we will never know for certain.

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Fact is, it was China, long, long, LONG before India's pitiable Chataranga.

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Iraq,  Sumerian culture probably. When the Annunaki Gods came to Earth brought chess

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rumrunner55 wrote:

Fact is, it was China, long, long, LONG before India's pitiable Chataranga.

And you have proof of this "fact"? The truth is, no one knows for certain exactly where the game originated.

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Mersaphe wrote:
jovanu wrote:

Iraq,  Sumerian culture probably. When the Annunaki Gods came to Earth brought chess

So another person who belives in the ancient astronaut theory. Interesting

But do any ancient books refer to it? 

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The game of chess is thought to have originated in what is now northern India or Afganistan sometime before 6OO AD: the oldest written references to chess date from then, but there are unverified claims that chess existed as early as 100 AD.
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Chess wasn't necessarily created by a country.

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Chinese chess is kinda weird and I don't think they have bishops in India - well not in 600 AD anyway.

Hmmm - Russians are pretty good at chess, maybe it's Russia?

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Thanks Mr_Spocky.  What's the earliest written reference or achealogical proof of the board as we know it?

Alien input is something else.  I've read Daniken but prefer Veliskosky. 

Avatar of x-2137697927

no one really knows who actually created it, it so old, but its believed to be started in India