Ziriab: the story of the musician who introduced chess to Europe

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Ziriab: the story of the musician who introduced chess to Europe

The origin of chess dates back to India, around the 5th or 6th century after Christ. However, its first and main promoters were the Arabs, who after the preaching of the Prophet, underwent massive expansion around the world. Their conquests allowed them to learn different cultures and also act as agents of many valuable things for knowledge, such as, for example, numeration and zero. They also adopted chess, which they learned in the East, as th…