How intelligent would a person have to be to invent a game like chess?

Anybody who plays chess will know what i mean.Every single move and possibility would of had to be pre thought off before the rules were set in place,just the idea of the game is genius in its own right.|||The game of chess.. while it's origin is debated and ultimately unknown.. was designed WITHOUT the knowledge of all of the possible permutations of moves. It's mathematically impossible for a person to execute all of the lines of action afforded by the rules of chess. It took 18 years for computers to map out all of the possible positions in a game of checkers. This was with only 10 pieces remaining on the board. There have been many games designed recently with a comparable level of depth as in chess. The board game Hive is a good example. It's possible for a position in Hive to exist in which the active player has almost 200 options on a single turn. The designer, albeit an intelligent person, did NOT map out all of the possible lines of action in the game. It would be impossible in a single lifetime.|||Chess isn't really all that big of a deal as games go. It's popular because it follows a very simple, effective precept: simple rules resulting in complex possibilities, or, put in a different way, easy to learn, hard to master.





There are 6 different pieces, each with its own unique ways of moving, on a board with only 64 positions. You want complicated, try playing Terrible Swift Sword, and even that one isn't very complex, it's just huge.





Chess also benefits from a couple THOUSAND years of evolution. That is, the game's rules have changed over the course of its life, and what we have now is pretty darn close to "perfection", if such a thing exists.





There are other versions being made all the time, and like any game, they need to be playtested extensively to find flaws and such, but so far, none have achieved the popularity of the original. The secondmost popular that I'm aware of is the variant featured on the original Star Trek, and its popularity is due primarily to being on TV for so many years. No one can forsee all the possible moves and combinations, and that's why playtesting is done. You could say Chess got nearly 2000 years of playtesting!|||Chess was not always as complicated as it is today. Many things in chess evolved over the centuries from the original game. For example, the Queen used to be able to move only one square in a diagonal direction. The Bishop could originally move only two squares in a diagonal direction. And pawns could originally move only one square forward, even on their first move (if some people think Chess is a slow game now, imagine what it must have been like back then!)





The game was sped up in the late 1400s by expanding the powers of the Queen and Bishop (to their modern abilities) and allowing the pawns to move two squares on their first move. Prior to these changes, several forms of castling were invented (different rules were used in different countries).





Once pawns were allowed to move two squares on their first move, then "En Passant" became last rule to be introduced in chess that pertains to the powers and movements of the pieces.





So chess, as we know it, was not invented by one person. There may have been a single person, way back when, that invented the game in its primitive form... but even though the original game was primitive by today's standards, it still took a lot of brains to invent something like that.





Wonder how good a player the original inventor of the game was? Imagine being able to beat the person that invented the game? That would be pretty cool. "So you invented this game huh? And I just kicked your butt! In yo' FACE!!!"|||hmm very Intelligent. I mean you have to think out the moves before you do anything. My chess master saying you have to think chess like your going to war and who you have to protect on the board and why. You want to take over the other side of the board but you have to tackle some of the pieces ahead of you in the game.





I think chess to me is like a really good game of rugby. Its like poetry in motion. Its such a wonderful game to play and there is no time Limited on it.|||I know I know, why not make a game like chess, but instead of having black and white pieces you can have blue and red. It can be called multi-colored chess and you can even make different colors.|||considering we conquered land/sea/air travel and recently space. chess is a second thought....i wonder what games are played in other galaxies|||simple- very intelligent!|||A person how invented chess is smart.He had to yous his bran a lot.|||they would have 2 b REALLY SMART! chess is hard...|||he has to b even smarter then einstein