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Well, sort of. Chess spread from India, but in many different forms. The form we call "chess" today is only around 500 years old, although the original game is
by jhbadger 7y ago
Well, sort of. Chess spread from India, but in many different forms. The form we call "chess" today is only around 500 years old, although the original game is over 2000 years old. And even today, the Chinese and Japanese have chess games distinct from Western chess (Xiangqi and Shogi respectively). It's interesting that Go didn't similarly "speciate". Perhaps because unlike chess, there wasn't the multitude of pieces and movements that seemed arbitrary.
- samatman 7y agoIt did, though. Go, I mean. Korea had Sunjang Baduk: https://senseis.xmp.net/?SunjangBaduk https://senseis.xmp.net/?SunjangBaduk Tibet had its own variant: https://senseis.xmp.net/?TibetanGo https://senseis.xmp.net/?TibetanGo I didn't meant to imply that chess didn't mutate as it travelled around. It's still striking to me that Go was unknown anywhere which didn't use Hanzi to write.