[00:00.00]The Story of chess
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[01:13.00]Each game of chess
[01:15.99]Means there's one less
[01:18.78]Variation left to be played
[01:24.49]Each day got through
[01:27.20]Means one or two
[01:29.90]Less mistakes remain to be made
[01:35.54]Not much is known
[01:36.84]Of early days of chess beyond a fairly vague report
[01:40.35]That fifteen hundred years ago two princes fought
[01:42.90]Though brothers, for a Hindu throne
[01:44.99]Their mother cried
[01:46.00]For no-one really likes their offspring fighting to the death
[01:49.48]She begged them stop the slaughter with her every breath
[01:52.24]But sure enough one brother died
[01:54.04]Sad beyond belief
[01:55.84]She told her winning son
[01:57.44]You have caused such grief
[01:59.58]I can't forgive this evil thing you've done
[02:02.43]He tried to explain
[02:04.83]How things had really been
[02:05.95]But he tried in vain
[02:08.25]No words of his could mollify the queen
[02:11.34]And so he asked the wisest men he knew
[02:14.10]The way to lessen her distress
[02:16.40]They told him he'd be pretty certain to impress
[02:19.15]By using model soldiers on
[02:21.05]A checker board to show it was his brother's fault
[02:23.85]They thus invented chess
[02:26.30]Chess displayed no inertia
[02:31.85]Soon spread to Persia, then west
[02:37.36]Next the Arabs refined it,
[02:42.64]Thus redesigned, it progressed
[02:48.40]Still further yet
[02:49.89]And when Constantinople fell in 1453
[02:53.29]One would have noticed every other refugee
[02:55.94]Included in his bags a set
[02:57.90]Once in the hands
[02:59.07]And in the minds of leading figures of the Renaissance
[03:02.73]The spirit and the speed of chess made swift advance
[03:05.19]Through all of Europe's vital lands
[03:07.43]Where we must record
[03:08.84]The game was further changed
[03:10.29]Right across the board
[03:12.45]The western touch upon the pieces ranged
[03:14.54]King and queen and rook
[03:17.24]And bishop, knight and pawn
[03:18.84]All took on the look
[03:20.84]We know today, the modern game was born
[03:24.10]And in the end
[03:25.50]We see a game that started by mistake in Hindustan
[03:29.14]And boosted in the main by what is now Iran
[03:32.05]Become the simplest and most complicated pleasure
[03:34.40]Yet devised for just the kind of mind who would appreciate
[03:38.30]This well researched and fascinating yarn.