Satranç: Doğu Medeniyetinin Batı’ya Bir Hediyesi
Chess: A Gift from the Orient to the West

Summary/Abstract: Debates on the origin of chess, a small part of the cultural and social history of mankind, remain up-to-date. Many see chess as a simple game played at home but for some, chess is also a mind sport, a strategy game, or a way for mind exercise. Originally known as chaturanga, chess is only one of many globally embraced games that were originated in India. There is enough evidence in the sources that the monarchical rulers, as well as ordinary people, played chess in the Middle Ages. Chess was seen as an act of preparatory exercise by the rulers in preparation for war in the Middle Ages. This article focuses on the importance of chess in the Turkic-Islamic world and its route in its dissemination in the medieval period, as well as its role in Europe.

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