The ancient game board was scratched into a circular ... around the sixth century A.D., although what may be "proto-chess" boards have been found in the Indus Valley region and dated to more ...

A game board that could be used for playing backgammon, chess, a French variation of backgammon called trictrac and a dice-throwing game called goose. Who played it: Persians, Ancient Romans ...

Chess arrived in Europe by way of Arabic ... Pit marks thought to represent an ancient variation of a mancala board Wkimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 2.5 Mancala, from the Arabic word naqala ...

The Covid-19 pandemic supercharged this digital renaissance by driving a 300% rise in new chess accounts, with online platforms now having over 200 million registered users of the sport ...

“But this seems more fun than chess,” Ekinci says ... The region is no stranger to ancient board games. The Ancient Egyptian Senet, which means "passing", dates back some 5,000-years ...

Napoleon and his marshals rendered as chess pieces in a jewelled Russian set From ancient India to the computer ... in 6th Century India as a 64-square board game, called Chaturanga, precisely ...

By Isaac Aronow Chess is an ancient game that traces its roots back ... be your first step toward learning one of the most popular board games of all time. A chessboard is a square divided into ...