Evidently chess started in Afghanistan around the first century as a war gaming and planning model. It migrated to India and then Persia by the 6th century. The fers was the councilor piece that evolved to be the queen by the 15th century with super-powers eventually. Check mate may have started with Shah mat! (the king is helpless- at wikipedia). Those ancient war gamers were pretty good at abstract theory I suppose, besides creating Hindu-Brahma theory and the caste system in India unfortunately. Maybe the GM caste reflects that a little. It is ironic that chess was so popular in the ideal classless society. Lenin might have been a snob if he had achieved Class A player status.
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