What is chess? When was chess first invented?

Chess, many people think chess is a very complicated game. To some it is easy, but if you want it to feel easy, how should you? Learning about chess can sometimes help. It started out as chaturanga in 600 A.D. it passed through Asia, Europe and many other countries and empires with very minor changes until the 16th century when it became chess as we know it, there were minor changes and new federations for chess in the 19th century began to come up. One of them was FIDE (Federation Internationale des Echecs) ; it is now the most popular chess federation in the world. As this was coming along, many important players such as Ruy Lopez, Bobby Fischer, Anatoly Karpov, Garry Kasparov, and more were coming along to make chess as big as it is now. A newer world champion thought  and #1 super grand master in the world is Magnus Carlsen, with a peak ELO of 2882 in classical chess, he has revolutionized chess as a whole with his incredible playing styles and ways to get out of sticky situations. But other Women Super Grand Masters like Judit Polgar and more also came up and boasted high 2700 ELO spots that have also changed chess as a whole. As more and more minor and adult players are getting into the game of chess. Such as Abdusattorov Nodirbek, Firouzja, Alireza, and much much more, it is making chess a more fun and rich game for people to play to learn and have fun. Chess history and history of players makes it such a good game to play with family, friends, teachers, and even strangers! Websites and apps have popped up all over the internet to help people connect and play chess, such as chess.com and lichess.org. But as chess keeps evolving, so will the players.

Now, we have to define the game of chess. It is a game with many rules. Such as “en passant”, “stalemate”, “checkmate”, “draw by repetition”, “castling”, and more. These quirky rules and ways to play chess make it so interesting at times, especially in game 2 of the FIDE 2023 World championships where Ian Nepomniachtchi and Ding Liren faced off in, most likely, the most interesting world championship game ever. Ding started off playing an unusual opening and early midgame, Ian played well against it and it looked like it was going to be a draw or a win for Ding, but then Ding blundered. Moving his bishop in the wrong order caused him to lose the game, Ian found out how to punish his mistake and obliterated him, causing Ding to resign. And in game 3 it was a draw and not too exciting, but it was still cool! But those 2 games showed how important it is to understand why you need to perfect the quirky rules and ways to play the opening and middle game to win. But you might be asking yourself, “Well, they’re grandmasters and are over 2785 ELO! I can’t do what they did!”, well you're wrong, it can happen at any time! And you might not even know it! Learning everything about chess can help you do it more. Or better yet, punish their mistakes more! But it takes time to learn, on average you might gain 100 ELO per 30 days. So, just keep at it.

Next, we need to talk about how to play and some players who can be great inspirations to practice more. One of the first steps needed to play chess is learning how to play. I’d suggest learning from a friend or parent. Once you have done that, practice. It will help develop your skills to become the best chess player you can. One other thing lots of people do is they analyze their games with a chess engine, such as stockfish, alpha zero, lc0, and more. The best one to use is stockfish 14 and stockfish 15. And one more thing you can do to increase your knowledge on chess is to watch and analyze other players' games, such as grandmasters, world champions, or even your friends. Doing this can help you practice your defensive and offensive skills on the board. Next thing you might need to know to master the game of chess is that you need to learn when to attack and not make moves that will impact your position or pawn structure that might lead to a loss. Another thing that you could do to help improve your winning chances is to protect the king in dire situations like if your down a piece or you are getting attacked, or else you might lose, but another thing you can even do is to force a stalemate, a stalemate is a draw, its when the king cannot move and it is not in check (when a piece is directly attacking it) And if you don’t force a stalemate correctly, it might lead to a checkmate (when your king is in check and it cannot move) and that would not be good. But, if you need to move your king away and you currently are not in check, you might want to castle. Castling is when the king is not in check, has not moved, and the rook has not moved, you can move your king two spaces and the rook will go in front of the king and cross it. You can castle queen-side and king-side, queenside is a longer distance but you move the same, the rook just moves a bit more than it would have on the king-side. But if when you move your king, you will be in check, you may not do the castling move and you must either capture the piece or block the piece in order to castle. You can only castle on the starting rank, even if a pawn is promoted to a rook and has not moved, it still won’t work. It used to, but FIDE has since changed the rules of castling. The correct way to annotate a castle is either O-O or O-O-O, O-O means castling king-side and O-O-O means castling queen-side. And if you castle and do a check at the same time it will have a + at the end, but if it is a checkmate while castling, it will have a # at the end. You can also annotate all of the other pieces. Any knight move is labeled with an n then the coordinates (ex: nc6) the coordinates go the same for every other piece (besides castling because that is not a piece) but every piece has a different label letter, every letter is the starting letter of each word for the piece besides the knight because k is for king. All the annotations are n for knight, b for bishop, r for rook, q for queen, and of course, k for king, but the pawn does not have an annotation letter, it just has the coordinates (ex: e7), but what happens if a piece takes another piece? Well it’s simple, it goes in this order: Annotation letter - x - coordinates. (ex: xe6, qxg7). And for the check and checkmate annotations that come after all of those they are the following, + means check, and # means checkmate. Stalemate does not have a specific annotation, although people have shown they would like to see one in the future.

Lastly, why is chess so popular all of a sudden? Well it has to do with a few things. Firstly, people started realizing, it is a very fun game to play over the board or online. It makes you feel “smart” or it makes you feel happy. But that is more of a smaller reason, a bigger reason is because of the series called “The Queen's Gambit” it is based off a female chess prodigy, and a fun fact about it is that all the chess positions and games in the series was fact checked by former world champion and high level grandmaster, Garry Kasparov. It was a monumental show and caused the search of “Chess” blew up on google and other search engines, 2 of the main sites that grew tremendously were “Chess.com” and “Lichess.org”, while Lichess.org is more accessible to people who do not want to pay for memberships, Chess.com is the more popular and does that. One of the other reasons is because of chess enthusiasts or teachers that started making videos or streams online on platforms like Twitch, or YouTube, that made the game what it is today and that also helped make chess so popular. Some of them include: Levy Rozman (GothamChess) Alexandra Botez and Andrea Botez (Botez Live) Nelson Lopez (Chess Vibes) Eric Hansen (Chessbrah) and Eric Rosen (Eric Rosen). All of those channels have gained much popularity from the spike in chess searches and people just stumbling across their videos. 

In conclusion, we have gone over 3 important points about chess and how to get better at it and another point about how chess became so popular. There is a lot to the game and It is always important to learn about games like chess because you never know, you might even want to play chess yourself or teach some other people like you! So have fun, and practice, practice, practice.

(PS: This took a while to write so hope you like it, follow me if you want, the main essay was over 1,550 words, I am also gonna write a full essay on how to play and go more in depth on the rules of chess. So stay tuned!)

BRO WHAT THE HAIL!!!!!!!!!!!!!

DA HAIL?!

Was this written by ChatGPT?

I love how it jumps 300-400 years back and forth even within a single sentence. "many important players such as Ruy Lopez, Bobby Fischer, Anatoly Karpov, Garry Kasparov, and more".

I know it's weird

Yes

Chess was jointly invented by the Soviets and Americans in the 1950s Spassky and Fischer both claimed to be the inventors and have joint copyright of chess ,later they sold it to FIDE who now owns chess and use it to make cash money

Thats like saying Ford invented the wheel, which they didnt.

Also to clear things up, no this was not written by chatGPT, I actually wrote this myself cuz i was bored. And ik it wasnt the best, hoping to make a very detailed essay on how to play, hopefully 3,000+ words, that would be funny, and call it cringe all ya want, i did it cuz i was bored, not to have people call it cringe, ever thought you were cringe?

and yes I do use grammar when writing essays, but not when typing in a forum like this

also thanks for the comment on the year jump, i added it for no reason so ig it served a purpose!

HOW LONG DID IT TAKE YOU TO WRITE ALL THAT

Some have theorized that the development of chess was influenced by the Roman strategy game latrunculi. Ruy Lopez mentioned that game many times in his 1561 work on chess, and Philidor mentioned it in his 1774 classic. In modern times, Yuri Averbakh believed that there was Roman influence on the development of chess.

It took a total time of I would say about 40 mins, not too long. And that could be true about the roman game.

idk why i did, and use grammar? Oh wait u cant even spell it so... no.