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Chess was played many centuries ago in China, India, and Persia. No one really knows for sure in which country it originated. Then, in the eighth century, armies of Arabs known as Moors invaded Persia. The Moors learned chess from the Persians. When the Moors later invaded Spain, the soldiers brought the game of chess with them. Soon the Spanish were playing chess, too. From Spain, chess quickly spread throughout all of Europe.
Europeans gave chess pieces the names we know today; they probably had trouble pronouncing and spelling the Persian names, so they modernized them to reflect the way they lived. Today, the names certainly aren’t modern but a thousand years ago they represented the very way in which both ordinary people and persons of rank lived their lives.
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 | The 70’s, the chess decade dominated by Bobby Fischer. Also the time when computers became more and more accessible and:
The decade of the chess openings!
Of course the first two mentioned above led to the third; in the 70’s, and even only between 1972 and 1975 alone, chess openings were revolutionized and looking back it’s almost shocking to see how much changed in a decad...
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