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.
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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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A history of chess without naming Spain, is indeed an extremely BRIEF history…
Who else is disappointed this had NOTHING to do with putting milk into a sheep's stomach and finding out active enzymes then made a delicious product called 'chess?' Or is my spelling off?
Thousands of years before Christ Shakuni played this game in Mahabharata
In India, We still call it the gojo (war elephant) instead of Bishop. Also, it is rook (war ship) instead of a castle.
Yall Chinese Chess is just EPIC
I thought chess was made in China in 200 b.c?
great animation!
Many believe that the IBM Deep Blue win over Garry Kasparov was a hallow victory and that IBM cheated.
Nonsense, chess was invented by a Persian matheatician. In other to explain mathematical concepts so the king could understand. H. R. JACOB, MATHEMATICS , A Human Endear 2nd ed. 1970 , W.H. Freeman and Company
He skipped the part about how the inventor, for his reward, asked for one grain of rice for the first, two for the second, four fur the third and so on
The king thought this sounded reasonable until an advisor pointed out that 2^n per square would end up being more rice than has ever been grown
The inventor was beheaded
(I had heard this story on npr)
i´d learn something new today, desde Colombia , gracias
WHO ANIMATED THIS I NEED TO KNOW!
These visualizations and animations are out of this world.
How about Arabic, "sheikh" for tribal leader (king), and "sheikh mat" for the king is dead
Imagine all that work to create this video and the board is incorrectly oriented. WTF.
If chess was released in 2021:
Nerf the queen she's OP
Change the map it's boring…
what is wrong with the media and video games?
our first open world sandbox boardgame
In Armenia we still use "Shahmat" as a name for this game
Great animation and explanation!
The Queen was the first strong independent female character.
We still waiting for Chess 2
the image at 2:29 isn't that of Go, it's Chinese Chess or Xiang Qi
“Once I make my move then you’re free to check the king” “No! Ron No!”
I play chess
Queen got themm hangers !
In the picture at 2:28 is “Xiangqi aka Chinese Chess” not “Go aka Weiqi” .
So chess began in India
I am proud to be an Indian
India find chess
It's always the Arabs who learn diffrent things from Indians and give it their own names to spread it to Europe
Really excited for 1.2 patch!!
Wow
"It is unlikely that this game was devised by a single person, but probably many minds over several years." In that case, I find this brief history to be lacking from the very start.
“The player who upset Russian dominance was not a citizen of another country…”
Bobby Fischer: “Am I a joke to you?”
This script for this video must have been written by a Russian.
The art for this one was nothing less than amazing. Who are the illustrators?
Who animated this and using which software, this is brilliant!
I thought chess was invented by Gary chess
Cutest animation!
When I win, I like chess. When I lose, I like Clue.
I love this animation. so cool. @ puppetmake
4:35 Feels very much like they were gearing up to introduce the 1972 Fischer v Spassky, then did a 180 towards Deep Blue.
Smh silly bot, you could've just taken the king at 5:06
If chess pieces were an allegory of the different classes performing their roles, then I’d be a tiddlywink.
U r wrong chess was first invented by mandodari wife of ravana
Oh Shah mat!
Schachmatt!
Fascinating.
Why is the western version called the "modern" version inthe video? I've seen people in china and japan playing thier versions now. Isn't that modern enough?
I like playing chess with my sister
Yeah, I hate playing against computers at chess. They're like the Agent P to my Dr. Doofenshmirtz – always knowing exactly what I'm planning and how to thwart me.
Or shatmat meaning : the king is dead.
This game only exemplifies the patriarch
2:01 is that man really losing to himself in chess