Episode 248: Checkmate, Grasshopper
Very Bad Wizards
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The Origins of Chess
i believe that i have established the checkmate is not a historically pre-lucery goal and i think it is a very interesting fact even if it does not entail it chess is not a game suits you know otherwise the earliest origins of chess have been lost in the mists of time but if my analysis correct then the invention of chess could not have been like the invention of golf or most other games. The inventor of chess could not have started with the goal of chess and then built a game around it as we do. He might even have laid out the pieces in a checkmate pattern before the first game of chess was ever played however because of the existence of illusory check
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