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To: Yogizuna who wrote (108)	4/8/2000 1:04:00 PM
From: Lilian Debray	Read Replies (2) of 183

Actually, the first game of chess can be traced to around 5 A.D. in North-West India - so the grain in the story may well have been wheat. It first spread to Persia. It was called chaturanga from the Sanskrit chatur: four. A chaturanga was an army composed of four elements: elephants, chariots, cavalry, infantry. chessvariants.com "Chess is the game which reflects most on human wits." Voltaire

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