History of Chess - Chess Documentary - From the Origins of Chess till Today

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The history of chess is a chess documentary about the enchanting and mystical journey of chess from India to Europe, passing through all of Asia and America. This chess documentary starts from chess origins in India as Chaturanga. Chess went through several amendments before reaching its final set of rules. Several chess world champions have battled in the history of chess. Legendary world chess champions from the past are still considered legends till our days: Paul Morphy, Bobby Fischer, Mikhail Tal, Garry Kasparov. Until today, with the legend in the making Magnus Carlsen.

Arabs brought an older version of chess, developed from Chaturanga, to Europe around 1000 years ago. In Southern Europe the game reached high level of popularity and slowly it was exported to the rest of the continent. Over the centuries, the rules of chess were changed and the chess board became more similar to today's one. During the Middle Ages, regardless of the social classes, age or nationalities, everyone knew the rules of this game and a few combinations. Starting from the 19th century, chess was considered a professional sport and soon legendary players took the scene. Above all, Paul Morphy with his short but epic career as a chess player. In the 20th century, chess reached its peak thanks to eminent players like Capablanca and Alekhine or the immense geniality of Mikhail Tal. The cold war also helped the diffusion of chess bringing the Match of Century in every house of the globe: in 1972 the Russian Spassky played against, arguably, the greatest chess innovator ever, the American Bobby Fischer. More recently, the scene has been catalyzed by two notable players Garry Kasparov, retired but still considered by the majority of chess experts as the greatest ever, and the legend-in-the-making Magnus Carlsen, who had achieved the highest rating in the history of chess smashing record after record.
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We hope you really enjoyed this video and we would like to hear from you commenting below. Who is/are your favorite chess player(s)?😀😀😀😀😀

deeperglobalism
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Just started learning. I lose a lot but I learn alot more. Beautiful game! Play on my friends!

E_Vibez
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Nice video! Just a little nitpick: at 1:03, when you castle you have to move your King first. If you move your rook first, then you've only made a Rook move, and your turn is over.

tracymiller
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Chess resembles a mix of ballet and kung-fu between two artful octopuses.

paulojrmsantos
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I recently started playing chess.
I'm here to know how the name changed from 'Chaturanga' to 'Chess'..
Chess is also known as 'Satranch' and 'Daba'...
Now, I want to know the origin of the words...
Love from India🇮🇳

souvikmondal
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Top 4 GOAT Candidates in Chess

• Paul Morphy
• Bobby Fischer
• Garry Kasparov
• Magnus Carlsen

ryuzaki_ray
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When you consider the final result of all those world championship games played, the final score tally was Karpov 19 wins and Kasparov 21 wins with 104 draws. I would not say Kasparov was a superior player to Karpov. Karpov remained 2nd in world for years proving he would have remained 1st had Kasparov not been around. Karpov was 39 by the time they played the last WC match and lost by one 1 point. So he was past his peak in chess terms and still fought Kasparov until the last games, an amazing feat which few recognize with a 12 year gap in age between them. For me Karpov 's positional chess was superior to Kasparov who was more of a tactical player.

bobradford
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Thank you very much for this most excellent video about the history of chess !!!

friendoftellus
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Steinitz wasn't German, he was born in Prague (which at the time was a part of Austria), so he was Austrian.

mr.speaker
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Fischer wasn't "way better" than Spassky.
He had never beaten him prior to their match. And if it hadn't been for all his antics, that clearly threw Spassky off, he might not even have won in 72.
In the latter half of the match Fischer was "running away in every game", as Kramnik put it.

fundhund
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There are so many historical discrepancies in this video....

CvJukati
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Addendum, in 2022 - 23 Carlsen was for the third time ttrippel WC (classic, rapid and blitz)

erikvinnes
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I recently started to play. Actually got interested in chess after watching an episode of Columbo. "The most dangerous match".

MrPleers
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How come you don't mention Ruy Lopez anywhere in the video? AN OPENNING is named after Him and you don't even mention him? Wtf.

Leo_Gar
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Shadyantra was invented in India and Shri Lanka because Shri Lanka was part of india 8800 yrs back. Initially it was named as Dhyut. Shadyantra is based on 10x10 board called Dashpaad. Chaturanga was evolved from Shadyantra in 200 BC after it was latter was banned. And yes Chaturanga was played on 8x8 board..

shadyantra
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in Italian, "scacchi" is pronounced with two hard c's, like "skàkki"

lorenzogiovannibotti
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Chess was best played by Indians 🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳 as it was first introduced by Indians, in many history books chess in 🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳India has been discussed, India was mainly the first country in ancient times known as Bharat 🇮🇳 which introduced chess.

northremembers
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"The year ten hundred"
Are you OK, m8?

KnjazNazrath
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I live in india and this is the first time understand the great chess that I have mastered a few weeks ago was invented in my country I feel like a stupid now

mumthashakeem
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great video. happy to see Vishwanath Anand

kapil