Stephen Fry on Race, Ancestry and the Invention of Chess

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Keywords: stephen fry, race, chess, ancestry, comedy, live, stand up, more fool me, memoir, biography, stage, evolution, history, storytelling, anecdote, funny, quite, interesting, QI, Ancestor, Book, Humor, Comic

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Length: 7min 23sec (443 seconds)

Published: Thu Dec 18 2014

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[u/tinyo2120]

Phil Jamesson on the invention of chess

[u/123tejas]

The Mughal emperor thing is completely made up though right? The earliest form of chess is Chaturanga which dates back to the Gupta empire, which is about 1000 years before the Mughals.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_chess#Origin

[u/Dynastyuk]

A quick google " On the 64th square of the chessboard alone, there would be 263 = 9,223,372,036,854,775,808 grains, more than two billion times as many as on the first half of the chessboard. On the entire chessboard there would be 264 − 1 = 18,446,744,073,709,551,615 grains of wheat, weighing about 1,199,000,000,000 metric tons. "

[u/miller1873]

I could listen to him all day

[u/BeatsMeByDre]

That last part about surviving the Ice Age, man, I used to love that ride Planet Earth at Epcot where you went into the big ball and saw the whole history of mankind from them fighting a wooly mammoth to the burning of Rome to a modern family at home watching TV. That ride is such a dream.

[u/salmon10]

Sort of like 52!

[u/xerim]

Rest of the video?