The Story Of Chess-Josh Groban

[ti:The Story Of Chess] [ar:Josh Groban] [al:Highlights From Chess In Concert] [by:] [offset:0] [00:01.03]The Story Of Chess - Josh Groban (乔许·葛洛班) [00:05.87] [01:07.94]Arbiter: [01:08.35] [01:13.31]Each game of chess means there's one less [01:18.92]Variation left to be played [01:23.37] [01:24.61]Each day got through means one or two [01:30.08]Less mistakes remain to be made [01:34.60]Ensemble: [01:35.07] [01:35.62]Not much is known [01:36.96]Of early days of chess beyond a fairly vague report [01:39.85]Male Solo: [01:40.48]That fifteen hundred years ago two princes fought [01:43.12]Though brothers for a Hindu throne [01:44.82]Female Solo: [01:45.02]Their mother cried [01:46.28]For no-one really likes their offspring fighting to the death [01:49.70]She begged them stop the slaughter with her every breath [01:52.72]But sure enough one brother died [01:54.68]Female Ensemble: [01:55.02]Sad beyond belief [01:55.92]She told her winning son [01:57.76]Female Solo: [01:58.43]You have caused such grief [01:59.76]I can't forgive this evil thing you've done [02:02.73]Male Ensemble: [02:03.37]He tried to explain [02:04.67]How things had really been [02:06.04]Male Solo: [02:06.25]But he tried in vain [02:08.38]No words of his could mollify the queen [02:11.30]Female Solo: [02:11.67]And so he asked the wisest men he knew [02:14.17]The way to lessen her distress [02:16.45]Arbiter: [02:16.58]They told him he'd be pretty certain to impress [02:19.30]By using model soldiers on [02:21.33]A chequered board to show it was his brother's fault [02:24.24]They thus invented chess [02:26.38]Male ensemble: [02:26.64]Chess displayed no inertia [02:32.20]Soon spread to Persia then west [02:37.08]Female ensemble: [02:37.31]Next the Arabs refined it [02:43.32]Thus redesigned it progressed [02:48.43]Male Solo: [02:48.77]Still further yet [02:50.27]And when Constantinople fell in 1453 [02:53.80]One would have noticed every other refugee [02:56.38]Included in his bags a set [02:58.06]Female Solo: [02:58.24]Once in the hands [02:59.62]And in the minds of leading figures of the Renaissance [03:02.94]Male Solo: [03:03.23]The spirit and the speed of chess made swift advance [03:05.56]Through all of Europe's vital lands [03:07.70]Ensemble: [03:07.86]Where we must record [03:09.33]The game was further changed [03:10.68]Right across the board [03:12.93]The western touch upon the pieces ranged [03:15.57]King and queen and rook [03:17.85]And bishop knight and pawn [03:19.16]All took on the look [03:21.36]We know today the modern game was born [03:24.37]Arbiter: [03:24.37]And in the end [03:26.17]We see a game that started by mistake in Hindustan [03:29.66]And boosted in the main by what is now Iran [03:32.51]Become the simplest and most obligating pleasure [03:35.70]Yet defies what just the kind of mind who would appreciate [03:39.42]This well researched and fascinating yarn