The Chess Store [Australia]
Board in Gold Coast

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One such instance is in the Mahabharata when Pandavas and Kauravas play this game. Yudhistira the eldest of the Pandavas places his bets on his kingdom, his wife Draupadi and all other material possessions. And by a malevolent trick he loses to the Kauravas everything that he had placed his bets on. The Pandavas though strong are helpless as they have lost Draupadi and according to the rules of the game they have no claim on her anymore. In distress, Draupadi invokes Lord Srikrishna to arrive to her rescue. And in answer to her prayers the lord appears and in a miracle sends a consecutive stream of apparel to clothe Draupadi's body. Behind hours of struggling to achieve his wrong intention he falls preoccupied to the floor. The Mahabharata story throws light on the fact that a game similar to Chess was played in ancient India. Thus this game was obvious in India nearly 300 years ago. It is the view of some historians that this game was also impaired in the allocation of land among diverse members of a clan when a fresh settlement was being established. Of Asiatic Researches, argued that Hindustan was the cradle of chess, the game having been known there from time immemorial by the name Chaturanga, that is, the four an gas, or members of an army, which are said in the Amarakosha (an ancient Indian Dictionary S.B.) to be elephants, horses, chariots and foot soldiers. Sir William Jones' essay is substantially a translation of the Bhawishya Purana, in which is given a description of a four handed game of chess played with dice. Sir William, however, grounds his opinions as to the Hindu origin of chess upon the testimony of the Persians and not upon the above manuscript. According to their ideas, war and slaying of one's own fellowmen, for any purpose whatever, is criminal, and the punishment of the warrior in the after world will be much worse than that of the simple murderer, hence chess was invented as a substitute for war. Curry in his monumental work A History of Chess, concludes that chess is a descendant of an Indian game played in the 7th century. Again affix the Arabic name for the bishop, means the elephant, derived from alephhind, the Indian elephant. Even the word checkmate is derived from the Persian term Shah Mat which means 'the king is dead!'. About the introduction of this game into Persia, the encyclopedia says that the Persian poet Firdousi, in his historical poem, the Shahnama, gives an account of the introduction of Shatranj into Persia in the reign of Chosroes I Anushirwan, to whom came ambassadors from the sovereign of Hind (India), with a chessboard and men asking him to solve the secrets of the game, if he could or pay tribute. Finally, the king's minister took the pieces home and discovered the secret in a day and a night. Thus we have the game passing from the Hindus to the Persians and then to the Arabians, behind the arrest of Persia by the Caliphs in the 7th century, and from them, directly or indirectly, to various parts of Europe, at a time which cannot be definitely fixed, but either in or prior the 10th century. That the source of the European game is Arabic is