By any other name, chess is just as addictive
By Chris Davis | China Daily | Updated: 2017-12-05 07:58
There seems to be some nagging questions about the origin of chess, this writer's favorite game.
One of our reporters in New York recently attended a xiangqi (or Chinese chess) demonstration where a world-renowned champion got up and told the audience that chess was invented in China and dates back to the Song Dynasty (960-1279).
Not so fast.
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