Who invented chess?

Chess is a very special game because of its very long history and its wide diffusion throughout the peoples of the earth,and its long association with many different cultures has enriched it and made it an intimate part of mans culture and heritage to a degree that no other game can claim.Whether the origins of chess go back only as far as 500-600 D when it was popular in India,or even much earlier as some claim back to 1000BD, when an Indian sage ZIGA BEN DAHER is said to have invented the game.

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