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The skill is easy to acquire. It is pleasing for children to play, learning its simple rules in their formative years. Duffers succumb to its temptation. It requires a mental effort with more than a dash of art and imagination thrown in - clearly an improving hobby.
Chess can arouse deep and violent human passion’s as it is symbolic of a pseudo-war. In some countries
Chess is only second in popularity to other sports. Traditional Chess is played in most countries with Japan having its own form, Sho-gi, probably derived from Chinese
Chess.
Traditional
Chess has been played for many centuries, though in the 1940s it became serious business for the former Soviet Union (Russia).
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