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This book traces the fifteen-hundred-year journey of chess, from its origins in India to the modern era, highlighting key changes and figures.

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Chess has been played for roughly fifteen centuries, evolving from an ancient Indian strategy game into a global pursuit followed by millions. This book, generated by artificial intelligence, traces that long journey in a single, readable volume. You will follow the game from its origins in Gupta-era India, through its spread across Persia and the medieval Islamic world, into Renaissance Europe, and onward to the organised tournaments and titled grandmasters of the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Along the way, you will encounter the rule changes, cultural shifts and notable figures that shaped chess into the form recognised today. No prior knowledge of the game is required to follow the account.

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Chess has been played for roughly fifteen centuries, evolving from an ancient Indian strategy game into a global pursuit followed by millions. This book, generated by artificial intelligence, traces that long journey in a single, readable volume. You will follow the game from its origins in Gupta-era India, through its spread across Persia and the medieval Islamic world, into Renaissance Europe, and onward to the organised tournaments and titled grandmasters of the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Along the way, you will encounter the rule changes, cultural shifts and notable figures that shaped chess into the form recognised today. No prior knowledge of the game is required to follow the account.

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Waries B.V. is a technology-driven publisher specialising in non-fiction. Through an efficient approach to the publishing process, Waries B.V. brings knowledge on a wide range of subjects to readers in accessible and affordable books. Where in the traditional publishing world a handful of people decide which information reaches the reader, Waries B.V. harnesses the AI revolution to break down those barriers. By having humans and AI work together, Waries B.V. creates books that would simply never have had a chance in the old system.

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