International Chess Day: World Chess Day is being celebrated all over the world today. This is a game invented in India. Not only kings but also Mughal emperors were very fond of this game which has been in existence since ancient times. The emperors had a different kind of craze for this game. So let us know how this game was played in the times of the emperors.
This is how kings and emperors used to play chess
Be it the kings or the Mughals of the olden times, chess was everyone’s favourite. From Akbar to Jahangir, everyone was very fond of playing this game. At that time, this game was played in a different way. Where the kings used to use their slaves as chess pawns, that is, at that time a slave used to become an elephant, a knight, a horse and a soldier. When the king had to move a pawn forward, he would tell the slave and in this way he used to play this game in a different way. Along with that, national and international competitions were also held for chess at that time.
How did chess begin?
The history of chess is almost 1500 is said to be a year old, It is said that this game was invented in Kannauj, India, At that time it was originally called Ashtapada or sixty-four square, At that time, the Sanskrit word ashtapad was used for spider., It was played with dice on a mythical checkered board with eight legs, The black and white squares that we see in the modern chessboard are almost identical to the squares of chessboard. 1000 It wasn’t like this a year ago, In ancient times, kings were experts in chess, Over time it expanded to Persia, There it got a new form and name and thus Ashtapada, Shatranj ,chess, became, Today it is known as chess., The winner of this game is considered intelligent,
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