Origins in the East

No one can Denny that Chess is a historical game, some people consider chess as war game? In old history Both Arab and Indian had there stories about chess , The first documented period in the history of chess is the Islamic world of the ninth and tenth centuries , in particular the Court at Baghdad of the Abbasid caliphs , who had originally come to power in year 750 . Chess may have been known in the Byzantine empire early part of this period , some stories in medieval romances , and the existence in Paris of sixteen carved pieces known until quite recently as “Charlemagen’s” chessmen, the contemporary western emperor. Al Suli one of the famous player, who became the leading player at the Abbasid court in the reign of Caliph Al Muktafi , and many famous chess players like Al Adli , Al Razi and Ibn Al Nadim , and some of the Caliphs also played chess like Al Mansoor , Al Amin and Al Mamoon . The famous Caliph Harun Al rashid who supported chess, was a good chess player and there are many stories linking chess with the names of earlier caliphs, men of letters and other Muslim notable , but these are almost entirely unsupported by contemporary evidence or details. Murray’s remark, that chess had already been a popular game throughout Islam, from Spain to the Indus, before the commencement of the Abbasid caliphate. In examining the Indian origins of chess it is as well to recognize at the outset that there are no Sanskrit literary sources earlier than the first references Persian already discussed , at least none that can be clearly identified as chess . So the Indian had some stories about chess, but it is very little known from indigenous sources about chess in India for almost half a millennium after its first appearance around the year 600. It is only after 1000 that there is a direct account of Indian chess by an Arab observer, the scientist and geographer Al Biruni, who traveled in western India around the year 1030.

The Middle Ages

At some unknown date before AD1000 chess was introduced into western Europe , and Europe was to be cradle of its future development for most of the next thousand years.

How did chess first reach the medieval West?

There are a few references to the game in written sources from before 1050 - 1100, and they are tantalizingly short and ambiguous. Once (after 1000) chess had become accepted as a regular feature of noble life, they were generally prepared to believe that it had always been so, and to attribute it indifferently to the court of Charlemagne, the court of King Arthur, or the siege of Troy, the last being an especially popular date for its supposed invention.