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Era of Origin

600 CE 1

Defining Characteristic

Chess spread throughout the world and many variants of the game soon began taking shape. 2

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Competition

FAQs

Why does this atlas carry chess grandmasters as athlete entities?

Games are first-class citizens in this atlas, so chess grandmasters and champions are carried as athlete entities alongside physical-sport competitors.

This subcategory groups athletes who competed in chess, the abstract strategy game of the chess family, carried as athlete entities alongside physical-sport competitors because games are first-class citizens in this atlas. Chess grandmasters and champions belong here, while players of other board or card games are grouped under their own game-family categories elsewhere in this tree.

Sources

1. Wikipedia: Chaturanga

WikipediaChaturanga, Origin section

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The earliest clear reference comes from north India from the Gupta Empire, dating from the sixth century AD.

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2. Wikipedia: History of chess

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Chess spread throughout the world and many variants of the game soon began taking shape

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Anatoly Karpov

Bobby Fischer

Emanuel Lasker

Fabiano Caruana

Garry Kasparov

Hikaru Nakamura

Jose Raul Capablanca

Ju Wenjun

Judit Polgar

Magnus Carlsen

Maia Chiburdanidze

Max Euwe

Miguel Najdorf

Mikhail Botvinnik

Mikhail Tal

Nona Gaprindashvili

Samuel Reshevsky

Susan Polgar

Vasily Smyslov

Viswanathan Anand

Wilhelm Steinitz

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