Chess- the tip of the iceberg

                                                               CHESS THE BRIEF HISTORY    Chess   is a   board game   for two players, called   White and Black , each controlling an army of   chess pieces , with the objective to   checkmate   the opponent's   king . It is sometimes called   international chess   or   Western chess   to distinguish it from   related games   such as   xiangqi   (Chinese chess) and   shogi   (Japanese chess). The recorded history of chess goes back at least to the emergence of a similar game,   chaturanga , in seventh century   India . The rules of chess as they are known today emerged in Europe at the end of the 15th century, with standardization and universal acceptance by the end of the 1...