A brief history of chess - Alex Gendler
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Published 2019-09-12
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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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All Comments (21)
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"Mom let me explain how my brother died. So Nf3, Qg5, Bh7, Qf8 checkmate"
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' did you know, the treadmill was originally a torture device?' Still is, buddy
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Beautiful visuals and amazing storytelling!
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So from India, it travelled to Persia(Iran), then after Arab conquest of Persia, Arabs learnt about the game. From them, it slowly spread to Europe and Central Asia. Chaturanga(Sanskrit) became Chatraanj(Arabic) and then Chess(English). It also had a different route where it spread to South East Asia and China and eventually Japan. Shikamaru from Naruto used to be a master of Japanese version of this game.
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dude dies brother: aight lets make a game out of this
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why is no one talking about how good the art style is
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"chess has been known as a tool of military strategy,a metaphor for human affairs and a benchmark for a genius" that line hits different
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For all that enjoy the queen piece, it was originated in medieval Spain during the reign of Isabella the first.
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Imagine being smart enough to interest people for ages
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Bishop and pawn: infront of each other "Uh..., well this is akward."
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Ludo and snakes and ladders are also from india, ludo is called chausar/choupar/choupat in sanskrit, and pachissi in hindi which is also the word from where romance languages and usa english gets the name "parques", it was much more famous in ancient india comparatively to chaturanga. There is a 4 player chess too called chaturaji different fron chaturanga
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Imagine telling your brother's death from a game. "Your son died in the battlefield. I'm truly sorry for your loss... anyways, pawn e4". - Prince of the Gupta Empire
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I feel so frustrated with the king piece. Like the whole kingdom is trying to save you and you just move one square at a time like you don't give a damn
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when the most important piece is the weakest
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Thanks to Gupta king for giving us such a masterpiece game 👍🏻
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Whoever animated this did SO good! I wish every animation was this cool looking and smoothly transitioning
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A chess game is a perfect representation of LIFE "I made one single move - now what?"
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Imagine all this history, and the final chapter is Charlie beating XQC in 6 moves
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In Mahabharat , chess is shown used Krishna to teach his nephew strategies of war. So it's much older than Gupta Empire and already used to teach war strategies. Many other Indian games are similar in that aspect like Kabbadi.
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I always go back to this video from time to time. The animation, the story and how the pieces have their own little personality. I wish there was an actual set with the design of the pieces.
