The Story Of Chess-Josh Groban

[ti:The Story Of Chess] [ar:Josh Groban] [al:Chess In Concert] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Story Of Chess - Josh Groban [01:13.51]Each game of chess means there's one less [01:18.37] [01:18.88]Variation left to be played [01:23.25] [01:24.67]Each day got through means one or two [01:29.48] [01:30.11]Less mistakes remain to be made [01:34.30] [01:35.41]Not much is known [01:36.98]Of early days of chess beyond a fairly vague report [01:40.01] [01:40.55]That fifteen hundred years ago two princes fought [01:43.04]Though brothers for a Hindu throne [01:44.83]Their mother cried [01:46.22]For no-one really likes their offspring fighting to the death [01:49.77]She begged them stop the slaughter with her every breath [01:52.57]But sure enough one brother died [01:54.58]Sad beyond belief [01:56.10]She told her winning son [01:57.74]You have caused such grief [01:59.73]I can't forgive this evil thing you've done [02:02.59]He tried to explain [02:04.74]How things had really been [02:06.40]But he tried in vain [02:08.37]No words of his could mollify the queen [02:11.59]And so he asked the wisest men he knew [02:14.32]The way to lessen her distress [02:16.22] [02:16.75]They told him he'd be pretty certain to impress [02:19.58]By using model soldiers on [02:21.46]A chequered board to show it was his brother's fault [02:24.53]They thus invented chess [02:26.01] [02:27.23]Chess displayed no inertia [02:32.36]Soon spread to Persia then west [02:37.67]Next the Arabs refined it [02:43.37]Thus redesigned it progressed [02:48.09] [02:48.89]Still further yet [02:50.24]And when Constantinople fell in 1453 [02:53.22] [02:53.81]One would have noticed every other refugee [02:55.79] [02:56.38]Included in his bags a set [02:58.16]Once in the hands [02:59.63]And in the minds of leading figures of the Renaissance [03:03.35]The spirit and the speed of chess made swift advance [03:05.63]Through all of Europe's vital lands [03:07.85]Where we must record [03:09.31]The game was further changed [03:10.82]Right across the board [03:12.91]The western touch upon the pieces ranged [03:15.97]King and queen and rook [03:17.85]And bishop knight and pawn [03:19.09]All took on the look [03:21.36]We know today the modern game was born [03:24.55]And in the end [03:26.13]We see a game that started by mistake in Hindustan [03:29.72]And boosted in the main by what is now Iran [03:32.53]Become the simplest and most obligating pleasure [03:34.96] [03:35.67]Yet defies what just the kind of mind who would appreciate [03:38.91]This well researched and fascinating yarn