Chaturanga - 1000 years of chess history

There are chess museums in the towns of Löberitz and Ströbeck in Saxony-Anhalt and in Lohfelden in Hesse.
With our small exhibition, which is supplemented by a stamp collection on the subject of chess, we would also like to present the game of chess in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. As a special feature, we are showing a skat game with chess motifs. The exhibition is open from September 1st. Please make an appointment by telephone (039953/70331) or by email (peter.ramsch@t-online.de).

The chess game - Chaturanga - probably originates from northern India. All known chess games are probably based on it. In the Sas(s)anid Empire, the second Persian empire of antiquity, chess was played at the royal court. Shah, king of the empire, probably gave the game its name. After the conquest of Persia by the Arabs, chess became more widespread. By the 13th century at the latest, chess was firmly established in Europe, as from this time it was one of the septem probitates, the seven skills to be mastered by knights. The rules of chess were popularized by Alfonso X (King of Castile and Leon from 1252 until his death). In the 18th and 19th centuries, chess became part of bourgeois culture, changing the style of play and shaping tournaments and chess publicity.