Chess…
PIC: Initial position: first row: rook, knight, bishop, queen, king, bishop, knight, and rook; second row: pawns
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PIC;Ashtāpada, the uncheckered 8x8 board, sometimes with special marks, on which chaturanga was played
It is a fact that the first game of chess has been traced back to have originated in northern India. Like other 1,000+ year old games, it would have been played differently than today's rules. It's thought that today's rules have been around since sometime in the 1400′s A.D. Chess is believed to have originated in northwest India during the Gupta empire where its early form in the 6th century was known as chaturaṅga (Sanskrit: four divisions [of the military] – infantry, cavalry, elephants, and chariotry, represented by the pieces that would evolve into the modern pawn, knight, bishop, and rook, respectively).
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