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Invention of Chess and chess moves

Chess is one of the oldest games in the world and it is assumed that the Origin of Chess is India and then spread over to the Arabian countries. The person who invented chess is not known. But the most commonly held belief is that chess is invented in a kingdom of INDIA. The earliest form of modern chess is a game called  chaturanga , which flourished in India by the 6th century, and is the earliest known game to have two essential features found in all later chess variations—different pieces having different powers , and victory depending on the fate of one piece, the king of modern chess.  The  original chess board was mathematically revolutionary, as reported by the infamous  Wheat and chessboard problem .  A common theory is that India’s development of the board, and chess, was likely due to India’s mathematical enlightenment involving the creation of the number zero. Below is a famous story related to origination of chess. The Story This story...