History of Chess

If you consider chess as analogous to a species of plant
or animal, you can consider it in all its variations
and history as evolving.

This page by a chess fan biologist, analyzes chess as
though tracing its genetic roots. According to him,
the evidence is that chess did originate in India,
rather than China as some have claimed. Although I
don't think he regards this as definitively proven,
since the evidence from those ancient times is scanty.

history of chess considered as a biological species