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I respect most your posts which are of high quality , siegecrossbow, but you've overlooked many important historical FACTS related to Chess which are in direct conflict with Indians' ( Indeed Murray's, of British Raj ) claim that "India invented Chess".
This claim has been further peddled in post War era by blatant Anglo propangandas which have brainwashed generations of people.
Please refer to the folowing long essay on this subject which I find most convincing:
Was Chess Invented in India?
by Sam Sloan
Chessays - Sloan - India vs. China
Note:
Sam Sloan studied linguistics as a graduate student at New York University, and is the author of a Khowar-English Dictionary. He can speak Khowar, Pashtu and Spanish, as well as some Persian, Arabic and Mandarin Chinese. He has been to 62 countries in the world, including almost all of the countries mentioned in this essay. Sloan is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Berkeley Computer Chess, Inc.
Yes, it is very long essay, but razor sharply logical and highly educational with abundent facts across disciplines. I highly recommend that ALL Chinese members here read it through.
It's a shame and a pity to see we Chinese nowadays trash away our ancestors' inventions alongwith all the genius and hardships they've entailed so so easily. Sigh!!!
I understand your patriotic sentiments, brother, and I really do appreciate that. I too am frustrated with the ignorance and the lack of acknowledgement of Chinese inventions (like how the Chinese invented the gunpowder but not firearms). How are we different from those ignorant people if we claim credit for everything? As I said in the previous post early form of Xiangqi predates Indian chess but didn't have as much of an influence upon modern Chess as Indian Chess (and there is indeed, some speculation within Chinese academic field, that Indian Chess managed to influence later forms of Chinese Chess as well). We must look at all the sources before coming to a conclusion.