Originally posted by tothetenthpower
They invented Chess afterall.
~Keeper
Well, actually the Indians did.
But you were close enough.
The history of chess, specifically that of Western Chess, spans some 1500 years. The earliest predecessors of the game originated in India in the 6th century AD and spread to Persia. When the Arabs conquered Persia, chess was taken up by the Muslim world and subsequently, through the Moorish conquest of Spain, spread to Southern Europe.
en.wikipedia.org...
Thanks for bringing it up actually, I learned a lot reading that article.
I never knew any of that stuff until now.

