{"id":427,"date":"2021-02-22T19:56:11","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T19:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chessquestions.com\/?p=427"},"modified":"2021-12-01T08:45:45","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T08:45:45","slug":"chess-history-timeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chessquestions.com\/chess-history-timeline\/","title":{"rendered":"A Chess Timeline – (Invention, Origins & Who)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Chess has a history that could be over 1500 years old. Chess was arguably first around as early as the 6th century, it is Ancient, but who invented the game of chess as we know it, and how has it developed over time? So when was chess invented exactly and where?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The game of chess as we know it today was invented around 1475 and probably in the Valencian region of Spain during ‘The Golden Age<\/a> of Valencia’. The inventor of modern chess is the medieval Spanish with a version known as ‘queens chess’. So named as the versatility of the then ‘weak Queen’ and pawns was added.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n There is far more to the history of chess than can be explained in a few sentences, so if you would like to know more about where chess came from, how it and how it has developed to how we know chess today, then please read on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n