Answers.Body: <p>To add to Jonah Hodge's answer, there is an excellent book called &quot;A History of Chess&quot; by H.J.R. Murray (from 1913) that covers this question and more. You can find it here: <a href="https://archive.org/details/AHistoryOfChess/mode/2up" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://archive.org/details/AHistoryOfChess/mode/2up</a></p>
  
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Answers.Body: <p>The short answer is that there are multiple pieces that were created at the beginning of the game that is now chess. The first game invented that was like modern chess is called chaturanga, and it has three pieces that match up with those in &quot;modern&quot; chess:</p>
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  <li>The raja (king) moves exactly the same as a king,*</li>
  <li>The ashva (horse) moves exactly the same as a knight, and</li>
  <li>The ratha (chariot) moves exactly the same as a rook.*</li>
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  <p>* The only exception being that chess permits castling.</p>
  
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Body: <p>Out of the current chess pieces in modern chess, what was the first one to be created?</p>
  
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Comments.Text: I thought that some of this information might be available online even though I couldn't find it. Could point about the onine-chess tag though. I'll remove it.
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Comments.Text: There was never a point when anything like chess was played with only a single piece.
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Comments.Text: @OrangeDog If I'm not mistaken the question is referring to historical versions of the game in which non-standard (by today's standards, of course) pieces (aka fairy chess pieces) were used.  So "What was the first modern piece among the historical pieces?" not "What single piece did chess begin with?"
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Comments.Text: The question could be asked more generally.  Looking at the current set of piece designator names, and the actual defition of how the move, capture or get restricted, or in short their mobility rule set, could we build a chronology through history of all the changes to either the names of the pieces, their mobility figures, or both.  from the first time it became an 8x8 board game with 32 pieces (chess droïds?).  From there we could extract many questions and the scope would be well defined. I also am curious of that evolution.  Murrays book might have some clues.
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ThreadText: # What was the first modern chess piece?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2024-06-19)
  
  Out of the current chess pieces in modern chess, what was the first one to be created?
  
  **Tags:** history, pieces, online
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_0**: I thought that some of this information might be available online even though I couldn't find it. Could point about the onine-chess tag though. I'll remove it.  
  > **username_1**: There was never a point when anything like chess was played with only a single piece.  
  > **username_2**: @username_1 If I'm not mistaken the question is referring to historical versions of the game in which non-standard (by today's standards, of course) pieces (aka fairy chess pieces) were used.  So "What was the first modern piece among the historical pieces?" not "What single piece did chess begin with?"  
  > **username_3**: The question could be asked more generally.  Looking at the current set of piece designator names, and the actual defition of how the move, capture or get restricted, or in short their mobility rule set, could we build a chronology through history of all the changes to either the names of the pieces, their mobility figures, or both.  from the first time it became an 8x8 board game with 32 pieces (chess droïds?).  From there we could extract many questions and the scope would be well defined. I also am curious of that evolution.  Murrays book might have some clues.  
  
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  ### Answer by username_5 on 2024-06-19. Score: 25 | Accepted answer
  
  The short answer is that there are multiple pieces that were created at the beginning of the game that is now chess. The first game invented that was like modern chess is called chaturanga, and it has three pieces that match up with those in "modern" chess:
  
  1. The raja (king) moves exactly the same as a king,\*
  2. The ashva (horse) moves exactly the same as a knight, and
  3. The ratha (chariot) moves exactly the same as a rook.\*
  
  \* The only exception being that chess permits castling.
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_6**: Upvoted. But can be improved with source/s.  
  
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  ### Answer by username_4 on 2024-06-21. Score: 3
  
  To add to username_5's answer, there is an excellent book called "A History of Chess" by H.J.R. Murray (from 1913) that covers this question and more. You can find it here: <https://archive.org/details/AHistoryOfChess/mode/2up>
  
  
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