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Chess History And Reminiscences

Description

Of all the claims which have been advanced to the invention and origin of chess, that of the Hindu Game the Chaturanga is the most ancient, and its accounts contain the earliest allusion worthy of serious notice to anything partaking of the principles and form of chess. The description of it is taken from the Sanskrit text, and our first knowledge of it is obtained through the works of Dr. Hyde, 1693, and Sir William Jones, 1784, Professor Duncan Forbes in a History of Chess, dedicated to Sir Frederic Madden and Howard Staunton, published in 1860, further elaborated the researches of his predecessors and claims by the aid of his better acquaintance with chess, and improved knowledge of the Sanskrit to have proved the Chaturanga as the first form of chess beyond a shadow of doubt.

Reviews

Rating: 4 / 5
Date: 2009-01-05
Summary: "synopsis of history of chess development"

Roughly, the book has 2 parts. The first deals with the history of chess. While the second part is a collection of essays about other more modern aspects of chess.

The history is perhaps the main focus. It has certainly been covered before in other texts, and at greater length. Here, you get a good synopsis of how chess originated in India. Most notably, pawns could only move one square at the start. Hence the naming of Queen's Indian and King's Indian for 2 of black's defenses in the modern game.

We see how chess migrated to the Middle East and thence to Europe, where it slowly changed into its current form. There seems to have been a consensus in the 18th century that stabilised the moves into what was seen as producing a good game, in some esthetic sense. To this day, that consensus has been upheld. Variant moves have garnered little traction beyond mere curiosity value.