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    screwdriverdelight
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    Which came first, the rules or the intricacies? i.e. did the inventor calculate with precise deftness all the rules necessary to make it such a successfully calculable challenge or did he randomly make the rules and it happened to work out, and in which case, one could change the rules and still keep the game intact.

    ???? ????. There. We were ????. No need to mention his name again.

    #1071133

    Shlomo hamelech invented chess

    #1071134
    balancehumanbalance
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    I’d speculate that the rules came first and then then intricacies. The same way when children make up a ball game and add rules as the game goes along so that the game is more fair to all parties, doesn’t end too quickly, or last too long. The game we know today is likely different than the original way chess was played. Changing rules might make it more likely to have a stalemate game.

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    takahmamash
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    You can read all you want about chess on Wikipedia.

    #1071137
    akuperma
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    Chess began in India during the time of gaonim (or perhaps a bit earlier). It was based on warfare which is most more intricate. The only major changes in rules were at the end of the Middle Ages (period of the last rishonim, early achronim) when the vizier became the queen and become a powerful peace (the bishops also got more powerful, and stalemates became draws instead of an inferior form of checkmate, and tghe game became much shorter). The elephant becoming a bishop didn’t involve a rule change (it came from Europeans not knowing what an elephant looked like, and do a lousy job of pronouncing the Arabic name).

    The older version is the one discussed in Ibn Ezra’s treatise. For those who can’t figure out, there is always checkers. For those who chess to be too easy, there is always gemara.

    #1071138
    screwdriverdelight
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    How does chess have anything to do with war? In war, neither side waits until the other side makes a move.

    #1071139
    screwdriverdelight
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    Chess began in India during the time of gaonim (or perhaps a bit earlier).

    Common translation of (??”? (?????? ??: ?”? ??????? would suggest that it has been around at least from the times of the ????.

    #1071140

    Chess isn’t easy or hard. It depends on who your opponent is.

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