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Chess: Wednesday afternoon, 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Many scholars believe that chess began in Persia (now Iran) as early as the seventh century A.D. When followers of the Islamic religion came to Western Europe in the 900s, they brought chess (called Shatranj in Arabic) with them. Modern chess involves using pieces (king, queen, bishop, rook, knight, and pawns) on a board consisting of alternating dark and light squares.
Chess is a recreational and competitive game played between two players. Today, chess is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide in clubs, online, by correspondence, in tournaments and informally.
If you would like to learn to play chess or just play a game then you are very welcome
The game dates from the late Middle Ages (c. 450–c. 1500) in Europe, where playing chess was a sign of cultivation and social status. That is, people of high rank, both men and women, were expected to learn the game. Minstrels, the travelling entertainers of the Middle Ages, did not travel without a bag of chessmen.