Has anyone read the Ulster Cycle? It's a group of manuscripts written in the 8th century, which contain loads of information on Irish Legends from the 1st century. In it there are references to a game called fidchell, fidchell is the Gaeilic word for chess. As well as this boards have been unearthed which are marked out in a style very similar to chess.
So chess could have been played in Europe, in one form or another, as early as 500BC.
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