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Topic: Who invented chess?
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A Norwegian legend containing chess...
http://www.pristowwweb.com/B10J02.html
I guess the jury is still out 
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CHESS FUN FACTS
The history of chess goes back at least 1,400 years, where the game originated in India and Persia.
Chess hasn’t changed much over the years. In fact, the last rule change was about 500 years ago.
It is believed that chess began as a way to get the royal children to think analytically and strategically.
The United States Chess Federation is 63 years old and boasts more than 90,000 members.
About 3 million chess sets are sold every year in the United States.
Yasser Seirawan, a top-ranked U.S. chess grandmaster is a Garfield High School graduate and co-founder of America's Foundation for Chess. He has also authored 13 books on chess.
At 2838 on the world-ranking list, Garry Kasparov is the highest-rated player in the world. The average tournament player is around 1750.
There are 169,518,829,100,544,000,000,000,000,000 ways to play the first ten moves in chess.
The word 'Checkmate' in comes from the Persian phrase 'Shah mat,' which means 'the king is dead.'
The first American chess tournament was held in New York in 1843.
copied from:
http://www.af4c.org/club/scripts/section/section.asp?NS=CLR
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| Chess hasn’t changed much over the years. In fact, the last rule change was about 500 years ago. |
My understanding is that en passant wasn't accepted world-wide until the 19th Century.
| At 2838 on the world-ranking list, Garry Kasparov is the highest-rated player in the world. |
That's not been true for quite some time.
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| CampbellMarcel: A Norwegian legend containing chess... |
One must be very careful about such references. Often, what has happened is that the original source just refers to some kind of strategic board game and the translator writes `chess' because it gives a reasonable impression of what was going on in a single word or because s/he thinks that the game sounds like chess. (Imagine an author a thousand years from now deciding that Roman references to `chariots' must mean `cars' because cars have been around practically forever and there isn't any other sort of wheeled vehicle.)
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I heard something about a Chinese person way back in the day that used to play with pieces that were meant for war magick. And they got the idea for a game out of it, another source say's it was invented in India.
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