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Why OpenThe conventional account derives chess from chaturanga in Gupta-era northern India around the sixth to seventh century CE, but the earliest physical pieces, the earliest unambiguous textual references and the relationships among chaturanga, the Chinese game xiangqi and Central Asian play are all thin enough that scholars have seriously proposed Indian, Chinese and Central Asian origins, and the debate has run for more than a century without a decisive find. 1 What Would ResolveSecurely dated early game pieces or texts that tie a recognizable ancestor of chess to one region and period, or philological work that settles the direction of borrowing among the early chess-family games. 1 Discipline NeededArchaeology, Philology, Board game history 1 Open Question
The conventional account derives chess from chaturanga in Gupta-era northern India around the sixth to seventh century CE, but the earliest physical pieces, the earliest unambiguous textual references and the relationships among chaturanga, the Chinese game xiangqi and Central Asian play are all thin enough that scholars have seriously proposed Indian, Chinese and Central Asian origins, and the debate has run for more than a century without a decisive find.
What would resolve this Securely dated early game pieces or texts that tie a recognizable ancestor of chess to one region and period, or philological work that settles the direction of borrowing among the early chess-family games.
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