Chess

Chess is a challenging board game having ancient origins. Chess originated in India, in a game called Shaturanga. The earliest extant description of the game is contained in the Bhavishya Purana, which dates from A.D. 300 to A.D. 600.

Shaturanga used dice, but Hinduism bans gambling. As a result, the game of chess developed free from any dice or chance.

Modern international chess has a powerful, sweeping queen who was not in the original game. The long reach of bishops today was also lacking at first. Maneuvers such as castling or capturing en passant are new. But all the other pieces and moves were in the ancient version.