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( Learn how and when to remove this template message)Ĭhess Live, formerly called US Chess Live (when it was affiliated with the United States Chess Federation), was a subscription Internet chess server that opened on August 8, 2000, and closed on when it was bought by Internet Chess Club and merged with World Chess Network to form World Chess Live.

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Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. 22, 2012, and rewritten on July 27, 2022.This article does not cite any sources. Originally published on Live Science on Jan. My head hurts after a casual game of Go, but it doesn't with chess!" Go is innately a deeper and more challenging game. "The saying is, 'Chess is a pond in which a gnat may drink and an elephant may bathe.'" Go is harder (for me) than chess. "Chess is a game you can enjoy at many levels of competence," Regan said. So, why has chess remained popular for so long, and why is it more widely played than other ancient games, such as Go, which is considered the world's oldest board game and has around 60 million regular players - one-tenth the number of chess players? "He was an important popularizer," Regan said. The manuscript, which also became known as "Schifanoia" ("Boredom Dodger"), quickly established itself as something of a chess bible, essentially codifying a game that had, until that point, been subject to a host of regional variances. Regan highlighted the influence of 15th-century mathematician Luca Pacioli, who wrote "De ludo schacorum" ("On the game of chess").

In time, however, chess became more standardized. How did nearsighted people manage before glasses were invented? This is largely because the pieces weren't as agile or dynamic as they are today, and as a result many games ended as a draw. "The Arabian games on any size board were fairly plodding," he said. "All major regional cultures - those rich and unified enough to expand geographically - had their own forms of chess," Regan said, noting that some versions were better than others.

Since that time, the game has evolved, with different cultures introducing both minor and major changes over the centuries. "There is no credible evidence that chess existed in a form approaching the modern game before the 6th century," according to Britannica. The general consensus, however, remains that the game was invented in India indeed, supporters of the Persian origin story tend to be from Iran, and so may not be entirely impartial. In a 1996 essay, Spanish chess player and historian Ricardo Calvo (who died in 2002) wrote that "most certainly it was invented in Iran," a conclusion reached largely on the basis that ancient Persian literature mentions chess prior to it ever being mentioned in Indian literature.

However, not all historians agree that chess originated in India. According to the story, he gifted the first chessboard to King Shirham of India, but given the earliest written reference of this tale is from 1256, it is highly likely to not only be apocryphal, but to have no basis in reality. While a single individual can't be named as chess' inventor, an ancient legend - an old fable that is not to be taken literally - names Grand Vizier Sissa Ben Dahir as the game's originator. The modern chess pieces include the king, queen, bishop, rook, pawn and knight.