Long long ago there was a Gupta prince.one day he went to a war and was dead. His brother thought how to represent this incident into board game. He called it as chaturongna a Sanskrit word meaning four divisions. he represented this in a 8*8 square board each of the coins had a rule about how the coins should move. later this game traveled to the Persian empire. and got its current name chess from shah and check mate from shah mat
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