 Everything indicates that chess move is of Persian origin and Arabic and then adopted and played by the Byzantine Empire.Historical rules are in sources that are little-known in the West, such as Muhammad ibn Mahmud Amuli's 'Treasury of the Sciences', so when, in 1983, Lincoln historian David Reynolds came across a reference to the game being played in the Middle Ages and set about attempting to revive interest in it, he chose to draw up a new set of rules, based around those of orthodox chess.Since that time, the older rules of circular chess have become far better known.