The true origins of chess has long been debated.
Arabia, Assyria, China, Egypt, Greece, India, Ireland, Persia and Uzbekistan have
all at times laid claim to the invention of what we now recognise to be the
ultimate game of strategy and intellect.
It is generally recognised that the version of chess we play today is based on
a game played in India in the 6th century a AD, although another theory places
chess as existing in China as far back as the 2nd Century BC.
The true origin of Chass, however, is not in dispute.
In 1997 in Newbury, Berkshire, UK, after long nights of playing chess well into
the early hours, an idea appeared, as if from nowhere.
What if, instead of using squares, we used triangles?
Many discarded pieces of paper later, the first chass board was created.
When the opposing white and black forces were placed in their starting
formations for the first time, we paused for breath:they formed, almost magically,
the striking double-helix  shapes so familiar to us in the DNA decade
of genetic engineering.

A new era had begun.

Chass was born