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Chess is a game which -- in countries where it is more familiar -- is quite often used as a reference to describe go to newcomers.

Since Sensei's focus is go, Sensei's chess entry is rather short. Please follow the links given below if you are looking for more information about chess.

See also the entries on shogi (Japanese chess) and xiangqi (Chinese chess).


Chess links

There doesn't seem to be a wiki site like SL for chess except perhaps for this obscure website:-


Discussion about Chess

Charles: On the other hand it is argued here at Compare Go To Chess that this is a bad habit. Which will indeed not stop it happening. There is a gap between the idea that chess players may well find go interesting (true), and that they are ready to become converts to go if given a few paragraphs of information about it by some go player keen to proselytise (which is definitely not true). This has the consequence that any comparisons made need to be made with great sensitivity, since crude advertising of go's undoubted merits will be counter-productive. For example, there may not be a chess wiki but that implies nothing, does it?


Chess history

(copied and pasted unedited from CompareGoToChess)

TimBrent: A slight correction for the person who stated both began in China: Chess, as Chaturanga, began around 600 AD in India?, and spread both East (as xiangqi and shogi) and West (as Shatranj and Chess). I do believe the xiangqi method of moving (on the points not the squares) is influenced by Weiqi.

Mark Wirdnam: This claim about the origin of Chess is the most common one, but according to the people actually putting time and effort into historical research of the matter, it's not as simple as that. A good starting point for reading about the existing evidence and theories concerning the origin of Chess: [ext] http://www.mynetcologne.de/~nc-jostenge/.



This is a copy of the living page "Chess" at Sensei's Library.
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