Chess and it's various forms

The skill is easy to acquire. It is pleasing for children to play, learning its simple rules in their formative years. Duffers succumb to its temptation. It requires a mental effort with more than a dash of art and imagination thrown in - clearly an improving hobby. Chess can arouse deep and violent human passion’s as it is symbolic of a pseudo-war. In some countries Chess is only second in popularity to other sports. Traditional Chess is played in most countries with Japan having its own form, Sho-gi, probably derived from Chinese Chess. Traditional Chess has been played for many centuries, though in the 1940s it became serious business for the former Soviet Union (Russia).