history of chess
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Today I Discovered That Medieval Chess Had A Lot More Characters
King, Queen, Bishop, Knight, Castle/Rook, these pieces all make sense in an ancient game of strategy, right? And then there’s the whole row of pieces that are just… pawns. Yawn. As it turns out, they haven’t always been so homogeneous – in one version of the game they all had their own titles and backstory.