Royal Game of Ur

Really set the tone for everything that's come since

Figured I'd start from the beginning. They nailed it right off the gate. When you begin playing, you think it's all luck, but once you get into it you realise how much strategy is required. There's a reason people played this for hundreds, even thousands of years.

Gotta start here if you want to truly understand the themes and plot of chess. It all started here!