How Did Chess Become Global And Did You Know That Iranians Were The Inventors Of Chess?

  The Karnamak-i Ardeshir-i Papakan, a Pahlavi epical treatise about the founder of the Sassanid Persian Empire, mentions the game of chatrang as one of the accomplishments of the legendary hero, Ardashir I, the founder of the Empire. The oldest recorded game in chess history is a 10th-century game played between a historian from Baghdad and a pupil