The origin of chess

The origin of chess is a very complicated and difficult problem, because chess has gone through many evolutionary processes before it is finalized. Chess was once called "Chess". According to the unearthed cultural relics and documents, Chatulanka developed into Chastellain Zi in Khosrau I Anushirvan, Persia, and was introduced to China as an elephant play in the Northern Zhou Dynasty through the Silk Road. It became Baoying chess in the Tang Dynasty and was finally transformed into China chess by China people in the Song Dynasty.

Some Soviet scholars published articles, trying to refute the Indian origin theory. 1972 Yugoslav historian bijiv's monograph "chess-a symbol of the universe" draws the conclusion that chess first appeared in China in 569 AD, and then gradually spread.

But it was later proved that Bijifu was wrong, because the earliest board game Chatulanka was recorded and unearthed in Indian literature three centuries ago. Yan Shu's Lei Yao records that chess was introduced to China in the early years of Wei and Huang Dynasties in the Three Kingdoms. The shape of chess is constantly changing. The origin of India is still the main theory in the world.

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Chess terminology:

1, opening: refers to the stage when the two sides arrange their pieces in a certain position according to their respective strategic ideas, usually within 10 round, but at present, the research on opening is getting deeper and deeper, and some changes belonging to opening have reached the first 15 round, and the late opening and the early middle game are intertwined;

2. Middle game: it is the stage when the chess pieces of both sides contact and twist after the battle is arranged, which is between the beginning and the end;

3. endgame: it is the final stage, characterized by a large consumption of troops. The on-board characteristics changed from the twisting and killing of a large number of sub-forces in the middle game to the interaction of a small number of sub-forces, and the direct combat contact decreased in the endgame stage, and the scheduling of sub-forces was the most critical;

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