The name "chess"

THE NAME "CHESS"

Hello today I am gong to write about why chess is called chess.

The chess was taken up by the Muslims after the conquest of Persia. The Moors turned in to shatranj as shaṭerej, which made the Spanish ajedrez.In Portuguese it was quite similar  xadrez, and in Greek zatrikion, however the rest of Europe used version of  ("king").It was called ludus scacchorum in Latin, scacchi in Italian, escacs in Catalan which was a dialect of Spanish , echecs in French ,schaken in Dutch, Schach in German, szachy in Polish, sahs in Latvian, skak in Danish, sjakk in Norwegian, schack in Swedish, sakki in Finnish, sah in Slavic languages, sakk in Hungarian and şah in Romanian; there are two theories about why this change happened:

1. It could come from the first chessmen known bringing ornamental chess kings brought in as curios things by Muslim traders.

2. Or it possibly comes from "check" or "checkmate" of what the people said in a lot of countries as It said nowadays.

Please I would like you to leave in the commentaries your opinion about which theories is right.

Chess board.

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 The Mongols call the game shatar, and in Ethiopia it is called senterej, both evidently derived from shatranj.
Chess spread directly from the Middle East to Russia, where chess became known as шахматы (shakhmaty, literally "checkmates", a plurale tantum).
It was introduced into the Iberian Peninsula by the 10th century.
Chess was spread principally by traders.
By the 15th century it almost take the shape of the nowadays chess.

REFERENCES

http://www.mark-weeks.com/aboutcom/aa06a14.htm
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_chess
https://www.chess.com/blog/jim_ostler/history-of-chess12
http://arimaa.com/arimaa/links/chessStory.html
https://sites.google.com/site/caroluschess/ancient-history/origin-of-chess-legends
http://academic.emporia.edu/aberjame/student/korenman2/index.htm
http://www.cultureconnect.com/maps/europe.jpg

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