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| | Chess Games,Chess History,Chess Competitions,Chess Terms,Chess in India |
 | | Common view is that chess originated in India, since the Arabic, Persian, Greek, Portuguese and Spanish words for chess are all derived from the Sanskrit game Chaturanga. |
 | | Chess slowly spread westward to Europe and eastward as far as Japan. |
 | | When chess entered the Muslim world, the names of its pieces retained their Persian forms but its name became shatranj that continued in Spanish as ajedrez and in Greek as zatrikion, but in most of Europe it was replaced by versions of the Persian word shah = "king". |
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