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 true secrets of Chess are shrouded in ancient mystery. It could be the first board game, the first turn-based game, and the first strategy game. There's a lot of interesting facts about the ...

“Chess improves concentration ... would a community centred on an ancient board game be able to withstand the rapid wave of modernisation sweeping across the Indian subcontinent?

The origins of chess, for instance ... an intermittent fishing camp where ancient people caught and prepared aquatic resources. In addition to thousands of piled-up clamshells, excavations uncovered ...

“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 ...

Once the game of kings and strategists, ancient chess has seen a remarkable digital transformation in recent years. From what was once played on wooden boards in quiet parlours, centuries-old ...

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 ...