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Leisure on Tuesday, 14 February 2012 This edited article about
chess originally appeared in Look and Learn issue number 640
published on 20 April 1974. A mediaeval family at home in their
castle where the Lord studies a game of chess in the living
room, by Peter Jackson No one knows for certain where the game
of chess originated. The invention of the game has been
variously attributed to the Greeks, Romans, Scythians,
Babylonians, Jews, Egyptians, Chinese, Hindus, Irish, Welsh and
Arabians, and many others. Some pundits have even tried to
attribute its invention to one particular individual. But it is
now generally believed that the game of chess probably
originated in India during or before the 7th century. From I