who made the first chess set?
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The origin of chess remains a matter of controversy. There is no credible evidence that chess existed in a form approaching the modern game before the 6th century AD. Game pieces found in Russia, China, India, Central Asia, Pakistan, and elsewhere that have been determined to be older than that are now regarded as coming from earlier, distantly related board games, often involving dice and sometimes using playing boards of 100 or more squares.\n\nThe standard for modern sets was established about 1835 with a simple design by an Englishman, Nathaniel Cook. After it was patented in 1849, the design was endorsed by Howard Staunton, then the world's best player; owing to Staunton's extensive promotion, it subsequently became known as the Staunton pattern. Only sets based on the Staunton design are allowed in international competition today.
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The Origins and Early History of Tennis\nFrom Jeff Cooper,\nYour Guide to Tennis.\nFREE Newsletter. Sign Up Now!\nAncient Egypt or Medieval France?\nThe earliest origins of tennis are a matter of some dispute. \n\nOne side believes that the ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans played a precursor to tennis. Drawings or descriptions of any tennis-like games have not been discovered, but a few Arabic words dating from ancient Egyptian times are cited as evidence. The theory says that the name tennis derives from the Egyptian town of Tinnis alongside the Nile and the word racquet evolved from the Arabic word for palm of the hand, rahat. \n\nAside from these two words, evidence for any form of tennis preceding the year 1000 is lacking, and most historians credit the first origins of the game to 11th or 12th century French monks, who began playing a crude handball against their monastery walls or over a rope strung across a courtyard. \n\nSponsored Links\nFree Tennis Racquets\nWilson, Prince, Dunlop & more. Limited Time Only. Act now.\nTennis.GiftFiesta.com\n\nNimrod's Legacy\nThe story of Nimrod's modern legacy this week on the WWT.\nwww.wonderfulworldtomorrow.org\n\nDemo Racquets For Sale\nGood to New condition demo tennis racquets for sale.\nwww.justtennis.net/demos.htm\nThe game took on the name jeu de paume, which means "game of the hand." Many who dispute more ancient origins argue that tennis derived from the French tenez, which meant something to the effect of "take this," said as one player would serve to the other. \nAs the game became more popular, courtyard playing areas began to be modified into indoor courts, where the ball was still played off the walls. After bare hands were found too uncomfortable, players began using a glove, then either a glove with webbing between the fingers or a solid paddle, followed by webbing attached to a handle -- essentially a racquet. Rubber balls were still centuries away, so the ball was a wad of hair, wool, or cork wrapped in string and cloth or leather, then in later years, hand-stitched in felt to look something like a modern baseball. \n\nThe nobility learned the game from the monks, and some accounts report as many as 1800 courts in France by the 13th century. The game became such a popular diversion, both the Pope and Louis IV tried unsuccessfully to ban it. It soon spread to England, where both Henry VII and Henry VIII were avid players who promoted the building of more courts. \n\n12Next
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it's 8*8 + 7*7 + ... +2*2 + 1*1. \n\nso for the chessboard it would be 204. :]
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The first match was made by Robert Boyle around 1680, and scientists and inventors have been improving them ever since.\n\nCheck out the website I've attached.  I hope this helps.
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Construx by fisher price. They were these really great building sets. I must have spent hundreds of hours playing with those. I wish I still had them, it'd be fun to play with those again, I bet it'd still be fun.
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da Vinci invented scissors. I don't know how he did or if it was intentional or not.
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Man, you don't need to have books to beat some grand masters at chess... You don't believe it? Then see this: http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=17247
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At age eighteen Pascal constructed a mechanical calculator, called Pascal's calculator or the Pascaline, capable of addition and subtraction, to help his father with this work. The Zwinger museum, in Dresden, Germany, exhibits one of his original mechanical calculators. Though these machines stand near the head of the development of computer engineering, the calculator failed to be a great commercial success. Pascal continued to make improvements to his design through the next decade and built a total of fifty machines.\n\nSorry, it's quite long.  Hopefully I was able to cover most of the inventions, if not all by these great mathematicians.  \nIn addition to the childhood marvels recorded above, Pascal continued to influence mathematics throughout his life. In 1653 Pascal wrote his Traité du triangle arithmétique in which he described a convenient tabular presentation for binomial coefficients, the "arithmetical triangle", now called Pascal's triangle. (It should be noted, however, that Yang Hui, a Chinese mathematician of the Qin dynasty, had independently worked out a concept similar to Pascal's triangle four centuries earlier.)\n\nIn 1654, prompted by a friend interested in gambling problems, he corresponded with Fermat on the subject, and from that collaboration was born the mathematical theory of probabilities. The friend was the Chevalier de Méré, and the specific problem was that of two players who want to finish a game early and, given the current circumstances of the game, want to divide the stakes fairly, based on the chance each has of winning the game from that point. (This was the introduction of the notion of expected value.) Pascal later (in the Pensées) used a probabilistic argument, Pascal's Wager, to justify belief in God and a virtuous life. The work done by Fermat and Pascal into the calculus of probabilities laid important groundwork for Leibniz's formulation of the infinitesimal calculus. [1]\n\nAfter a religious experience in 1654, Pascal mostly gave up work in mathematics. However, after a sleepless night in 1658 he offered, anonymously, a prize for the quadrature of a cycloid. Solutions were offered by Wallis, Huygens, Wren, and others; then Pascal, under a pseudonym, published his own solution. A controversy followed in which the competitors, including Pascal, behaved less than philosophically.\nLobachevsky's main achievement is the development (independently from János Bolyai) of non-Euclidean geometry. Before him, mathematicians were trying to deduce Euclid's fifth postulate from other axioms. Lobachevsky would instead develop a geometry in which the fifth postulate was not true. This idea was first reported on February 23 (Feb. 11, O.S.), 1826 to the session of the department of physics and mathematics, and this research was printed in the UMA (Вестник Казанского университета) in 1829–1830. The recognition of his ideas by the mathematical community was quite slow. They were fully accepted only several decades after Lobachevsky's death.\n\nAnother of Lobachevsky's achievements was developing a method for the of letters approximation of the roots of algebraic equations. This method is now known as Dandelin-Gräffe method, named after two other mathematicians who discovered it independently. In Russia, it is called the Lobachevsky method. Lobachevsky gave the definition of a function as a correspondence between two sets of real numbers (Dirichlet gave the same definition independently soon after Lobachevsky).\n\nSir Horace Lamb FRS (November 29, 1849 - December 4, 1934) was a British applied mathematician and author of several influential texts on classical physics, among them Hydrodynamics (1879) and Dynamical Theory of Sound (1910). Both of these books are still in print.
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the first computer was made by an english man called charles babbage in the 1800s. it was like a calculater and was the size of a house. \nt
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Rickenbacker invented the first electric guitar;\nFender built the first solid body electric guitar (1947);\nGibson was the first to combine classic guitar building techniques with electronics and also invented the humbucking pickup.
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The person who made the first carpet.  Wild guess.
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Bernard Lassimone, a French mathematician, applied for the first patent (french patent #2444) on pencil sharpeners, in 1828. In 1847, Therry des Estwaux invented the manual pencil sharpener.
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When I was 12, I got my Dad a Chess Board.  Yeah, it was cheap, but we play on that very same Chess Board today.  I am in my 40's now.  (You can craft your own Chess/Checkers Board too.) \n\nNot only was it a great gift for Father's Day, but we share quality time together.\n\nGood Luck!
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JOHN NAPIER,  a Scottish mathematician \ninvented a tool called Napier's Bones on early 1600s, which were multiplication tables inscribed on strips of wood or bone. ^_^
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If you go to a local chess club, you will probably find a class.  Good luck.
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One way to understand Chess programs is to look at a program called Crafty for which the source is in public domain.\n\nHere are some links you will likely enjoy.
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Chess is board game, not a sport.\n\nYou can earn money with tournaments online http://www.jimmyr.com/online_chess.php