• Researchers think chess may have originated in India as a war game, chatarung, dating to as early as A.D. 600.
• The piece that is now the queen originally was the king’s adviser. Europeans changed it to a queen, and it became the strongest piece on the board in the 1400s.
• Benjamin Franklin was a chess fanatic and wrote “The Morals of Chess” in 1750.
• America’s first chess champion was Paul Morphy, who won the American Chess Congress tournament in 1857.
• Membership for the nation’s overseer of chess competition, the U.S. Chess Federation, doubled when Bobby Fischer emerged in 1957 as the youngest U.S. champion at age 14. (Fischer at one point lived in Arizona but grew up in New York.)
Source: http://www.azcentral.com
wow! what a great info. but i realized until nowadays, why chess games are still not so much famous compare any other sports. anyway, don’t get me wrong. i am chess enthusiast.
Chess is not so professionals because chess players are doing everything against it. They are a bunch of spoiled egoistic brats.
I knew Bobby Fischer did a lot of the chess publicity-wise, but I had no idea his effect was that large.
Researchers think chess may have originated in India as a war game, chatarung, dating to as early as A.D. 600.>
Everybody says India, but I don’t understand how anyone could think the game was unrelated to Chinese Chess, which we know is much older than anything from India.
I knew Bobby Fischer did a lot of the chess publicity-wise, but I had no idea his effect was that large.
It wasn’t. The USCF Membership was doubling every few years anyway. A 14 year old champion was probably responsible for some of the increase, but not that nearly all. Now, when he made his run for the title, he had a bigger effect.
You use the word chatarung but I think you mix the words chaturanga (four armies) and it’s derivation shatrang.