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How did a 64-square board survive 1,500 years?
Chess endures because it’s the purest test of strategy humans ever created.
It begins in 6th-century India as Chaturanga, a war-game of infantry, cavalry, elephants, and chariots.
In Persia it becomes Shatranj, sharpening the rules and giving us “shah mat” “the king is helpless.”
The Islamic Golden Age turns chess into a science, with scholars writing the first strategy manuals.
Medieval Europe reshapes the pieces and supercharges the Queen, creating the fast, aggressive game we know.
By the 19th century, standardized rules, clocks, and global tournaments define modern chess.
Today, engines and online play evolve it again infinite ideas on a finite board.
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