Did chess travel the tortuous Silk Road to the sands of Alexandria?
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The expression "Silk Road" is historically referred to as the route, both by land and by sea, traveled by merchants, craftsmen, diplomats, and the military since the 1st century BC. A commercial network that went from China in the Far East, to Europe, the Mediterranean and North Africa; crossing territories of what we know today as Mongolia, India, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Persia, Arabia, Syria, Turkey, Russia, Egypt, Somalia and others of the Near East. Through this communication mesh not only silk was commercialized but other species and valuable and exotic products for the Europeans. But also, there were goods with an immaterial profile as important as the beliefs, traditions, philosophies,
religions, political tendencies, musical forms, literature, artistic expressions and games; most probably, among them, chess. And it was precisely these intangible cultural products that gave an indelible stamp to such civilizations and to those that were generated from them later on. To this end, we present a historical outline of the most consistent hypotheses regarding the origin of the game of chess; proposals that we will call Chinese, Indian, Persian, Arab, Egyptian and Irish, respectively.
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