Essays on how the chess family of strategy games, xiangqi, janggi, draughts and reversi/othello, diverged from shared ancestors or from each other, including rule changes, regional comparison and naming or patent disputes over the pieces and board themselves. Belongs here: any article about how one of these games came to differ from its relatives in rules or form. Does not belong here: an article about the ancient origin of a non-chess-family traditional game, grouped under Ancient and Traditional Game Origins, or about a chess-family game's own championship or federation history, grouped under Mind Sport Federation Founding and Title Lineage.
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Defining CharacteristicChess spread throughout the world and many variants of the game soon began taking shape. 1 All Chess-Family Strategy Game Divergence
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1. 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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How chess-family games diverged from shared ancestors or each other, including rule changes and naming or patent disputes.
Chess-Family Strategy Game Divergence covers essays on how the chess family of strategy games, xiangqi, janggi, draughts and reversi/othello, diverged from shared ancestors or from each other, including rule changes, regional comparison and naming or patent disputes over the pieces and board themselves. An article about how one of these games came to differ from its relatives in rules or form belongs here, rather than an article about a game's ancient origin or its championship history.