Chess history
From Conservapedia
Chess history in its modern form dates from the Renaissance in Western Europe during the Holy Roman Empire, specifically the 1300s when the following improvements on the game of chess were began:[1]
- castling was invented in order to protect the king
- the queen became super powerful
- pawns because more powerful and important, with pawn promotion, its ability to move two squares on its first move, and its power to move by En Passant.
The key pieces in chess -- knights and bishops -- are based on the Church hierarchy, while the king and queen are based on the royal form of government in Western Europe at that time.
Traced to India
A game called chaturaṅga developed hundreds of years earlier in India, but it had fundamental differences in its rules and certainly no bishops as pieces.
