When was Chess invented?

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Karamel44

Does anyone now when chess was invented?

patzermike

It has been conclusively proved that chess was invented in India or somewhere else sometime before or after 200AD.

adumbrate

yesterday

Tatzelwurm

I'll never understand why people keep on asking trivia questions on these forums when there are search engines who can answer these questions much quicker and more reliably.

Karamel44

and because some people wanna know what other people think.

sudden-change

I can quite easily imagine that chess (or the first games resembling chess) was played since the days people discovered music.

iMacChess

According to the FIDE President Chess was invented by aliens from outer space...🐾

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/kirsan-ilyumzhinov-chess-came-to-earth-from-outer-space-2085838.html

Knightly_News

A couple of cavemen drunk on fermented berries were sitting around pushing pebbles around in the dirt.   That was chess version 0.0001 Everything after that was incremental development of the game.

Joker-Jamal

Inventor-Joker-Jamal

Invented-26.06.15