A brief history of chess – Alex Gendler

Trace the storied history of the game of chess, from its origins in 7th century India to the computer software we use today.

The attacking infantry advances, their elephants already having broken the defensive line. The king tries to retreat, but the enemy flanks him from the rear. Escape is impossible. This isn’t a real war— nor is it just a game. Over the 1,500 years of its existence, chess has been known as a military strategy tool, a metaphor for human affairs and a measure of genius. Alex Gendler shares its history.

Lesson by Alex Gendler, directed by Remus & Kiki.

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    Temur lang mog'illarni emas. Turkiylarni qiroli bogan.

    Soviet Union was not so dominant as THE MAN: Bobby Fischer. He dominated the Soviet Union. Fix your history.

    Temurlane is not Mongolian.He was Uzbek.Now your fals information made so many vievers believe Temur was Mongolian.Donʼt make such a rude mistake!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    This video is totally wrong because the orgin of chess dates back earlier than from 6th century the inventor of chess was queen Mandodari the wife of Multi world ruler Ravana

    Indian names of pieces
    Queen = Minister/Wazir
    Rook = Chariot
    Bishop = Elephant
    Knight = Horse
    Pawn = Soldier

    Not only chess .. algebra nd many more 1000s of books arabs taken from india nd renamed them nd destroyed indian books .nd. knowledge

    What if we made a transfer command rule, where if the queen is on the board, the king can be captured and the queen takes command?

    Time to cause debate

    Do you call the 2nd to the king (on chess)
    Queen or minister?
    And the bishop
    Bishop,or elephant
    or pope

    In indonesia some call them minister and elephant

    Ludo and snakes and ladders are also from india, ludo is called chausar/choupar/choupat in sanskrit, and pachissi in hindi which is also the word from where romance languages and usa english gets the name "parques", it was much more famous in ancient india comparatively to chaturanga. There is a 4 player chess too called chaturaji different fron chaturanga

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    Checkmate again Ted Ed! Congratulations!👌👏👏👏

    Thanks for mentioning other chess variants like shogi, Ted-ed! I got interested in the game and am now helping spread the game outside of Japan.

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    3:04 I heard that the Taliban regime in Afghanistan has also banned chess recently.

    Chinese chess or Xiangqi did not get any influence from Chess actually
    And also the pieces aren't shaped like that in Xiangqi

    In our village we name chess as
    King = raja
    Queen = Wazir
    Bishop = camel 🐫
    Rook = elephant 🐘
    Pawn = padi
    Knight= ghoda

    In bangladesh
    King = King
    Queen =Minister
    Bishop=Elephant
    Knight=Horse
    Rook=Warships

    Wow you destroyed the history of chess it is invention of Muslims and first manual is made by Muslims

    I felt bad for the computer at the end. It looked really sad.

    so we have the queen in chess because europeans are simps

    Thanks India for chess and more important inventions, I can't imagin my the world without India. Lot of love India from France❤❤❤.

    So thats why chess and checkmate is called 'skak' and 'skakmat' in my local languange…

    life is like a game of chess… i dont know how to play chess.

    5:21
    Wait…
    The treadmill ISN'T considered a torture device?

    3:08 Why was Christianity against chess? Because it depicted the bishop as a lesser piece bellow the king? Mimicking the pope/hre emperor power struggle?

    I want a movie about the underground chess movement in France during the time it was banned.

    Chess orgined from India🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳 iiii

    Chess was invented in INDIA?! As a Sri Lankan, I think we Asians are pretty underrated, no?

    I don't care about the supposed legends, I care about the history. They couldn't start with that?

    ❤️Jesus lived the life we couldn't live and died the death we deserve. Repent of your sins and trust in Him💜

    I will beat any chess player in this world ♟️, 🇲🇾 king never move.. only castle 🏯 will take down enemy horse 🐎

    I was under the impression that the Nordic game "Hatenfatl" (sp) also played a part in the development of Chess.

    I just always try to move a bunch of pieces to the center of the board, castle early, and then try not to get into uneven trades

    Not sure if it’s the best strategy but I developed it in middle school and never stopped using it

    Me being a chess player me forking my enemys queen king and rook;)

    If you pretend to explain anything about chess, see to it that boards are, at least, situated right. Right?!

    It's a game of free will vs chance, to an extent..

    Way to skip over Fischer in favor of Deep Blue

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