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Ancient chess – discovery

20/04/2014 by Nikita

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Excavations at a burial site in south-east Turkey have revealed a set of 49 sculpted pieces that may once have been used in board games. They are among the oldest evidence of such games ever found.

Sağlamtimur, from Ege university in Izmir, Turkey discussed the finds at the annual International Symposium of Excavations, Surveys and Archaeometry in the Turkish city of Muğla. He thinks the pieces belong to some complicated chess-like game. His team now hopes to work out the strategies that the game must have involved.

Not so fast, says Ulrich Schädler, director of the Swiss Museum of Games in La Tour-de-Peilz. “Do the objects really all belong to one game? I would answer no,” he told New Scientist. “We don’t have the slightest trace of a board game using more than two different kinds of pieces before chess.” Early forms of chess were not played until about 1500 years ago. Read the entire article here.

Chess is believed to have first originated in Eastern India known as Chaturanga. The game spread from India to Persia and after the Islamic conquering of the Persian empire it was adopted by them and spread even further afield with it’s name changed to shatranj. The Islamic world then spread chess throughout Europe and then to Russia. On this link you can read more about the history of ancient games relating to chess.

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Image: Wikipedia – Shatranj

Senet was played between 1550-1069 BC in Egypt. In the next image you can see a painting on the wall of Queen Nefertari’s tomb depicting her playing the game in the afterlife. 

You can download this file for  the rules of Senet

Chess_Senet-Queen-Nefertari

Egyptian Chess

Image source here.

This game in the above image has been found painted on the funeral tombs of the rich and which shows a lion and an antelope playing the game of Senet.

According to the British Museum, it’s a scene from a satirical papyrus, possibly from Thebes, the Late New Kingdom, around 1100 BC.

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Posted in Ancient Chess, Chess, Chess history | Tagged Ancient Chess, Chess history, Senet, Shatranj | 6 Comments

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  1. on 10/06/2014 at 20:49 Dan

    I am currently playing a city-building game called Pharaoh which includes Senet houses. Happy Birthday, “Nikita.”


    • on 19/06/2014 at 18:17 Nikita

      Hi Dan, good to see you around again. Thank you for the birthday-wishes. 🙂 How are you?


  2. on 23/06/2014 at 23:46 Dan

    I’ve been better, but I won’t bore you with the details. Are you on summer break yet?


    • on 24/06/2014 at 21:50 Nikita

      hi Dan, you got my email address and you know you can email me. 🙂 Nope, not holiday as yet, always end of July+August – still busy with school and done a 2 day reading course, came back tonight from midlands 🙂


    • on 30/06/2014 at 02:28 Dan

      Actually, I do NOT have your email address and the last email address you have for me has been closed. Long story. You can send me a message on Chessworld if you like. I see that you actually logged in there recently.


    • on 30/06/2014 at 18:27 Nikita

      hi Dan, ok, will contact you on the chess site.



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