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The article does give this away early, but the answer is "no, chess is popular but not (yet) for the western variant". AFAIK this is same for all East Asian cou
by lifthrasiir 3y ago
The article does give this away early, but the answer is "no, chess is popular but not (yet) for the western variant". AFAIK this is same for all East Asian countries. That does make me wonder if chess (or more accurately, all games thought to originate from Chaturanga) is the first ever internationally distributed game.
- freddie_mercury 3y agoGo became "international" 200 years before the earliest forerunner of chess had even been invented. That's when it spread from China to Korea. And it reached Japan around the same time chess's earliest forerunner was being invented in India. Beyond that it seems likely that dice games from e.g. Romans, Egyptians, Assyrians were likely the first to spread as those empires spread and the soldiers who played them played them with locals.
- no_wizard 3y agoChess exploded in China though. They even have national state sponsored teams now