The Story of Chess (From "Chess")

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The Alan Peters Orchestra And Chorus

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Each game of chess
Means there's one less
Variation left to be played

Each day got through
Means one or two
Less mistakes remain to be made

Not much is known
Of early days of chess
Beyond a fairly vague report

That fifteen hundred years ago
Two princes fought
Though brothers
For a Hindu throne

Their mother cried
For no one really likes
Their offspring fighting
To the death
She begged them stop
The slaughter
With her every breath

But sure enough
One brother died
Sad beyond belief
She told her winning son

"You have caused such grief
I can't forgive
This evil thing you've done."

He
Tried to explain
How things had really been

But
He tried in vain
No words of his
Could mollify the queen

And so he asked
The wisest men he knew
The way to lessen her distress

They told him he'd be
Pretty certain to impress
By using model soldiers
On a checkered board
To show it was his brother's fault

They thus invented chess

Chess displayed no inertia
Soon spread to Persia
Then west

Next the Arabs refined it
Thus redesigned, it
Progressed

Still further yet
And when Constantinople
Fell in 1453
One would have noticed
Every other refugee
Included in his bags a set

Once in the hands
And in the minds
Of leading figures
Of the Renaissance

The spirit and the speed
Of chess made swift advance
Through all of Europe's vital lands

There we must record
The game was further changed
Right across the board
The western touch
Upon the pieces ranged

Soloists above
Each game of chess
Means there's one less
Variation left to be played

King, and queen, and rook
And bishop, knight, and pawn
All took on the look
We know today--
The modern game was born

And in the end
We see a game
That started by mistake
In Hindustan
And boosted in the main
By what is now Iran
Become the simplest
And most complicated
Pleasure yet devised
For just the kind of mind
Who would appreciate this
Well-researched, and fascinating
Yarn

The World Chess Federation, of which I have the honour of being president, announces that the next world championship will take place here in Merano, Italy. The current world champion, Frederick Trumper of the United States of America, will defend his title against Anatoly Sergievsky of the Soviet Union. The first player to achieve six victories will be declared Champion. The first game will begin on March 27, 1979

Welcome, world, to Merano!

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