• Samsy@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    Okay since nobody did a serious answer, here we go:

    tl;dr: its a translation/interpretation error.

    The first documented forms of chess are all “war machines” of their time the tower was a Charioteer.

    When chess hits Europe someone translated charioteer with tower. Idk why, maybe because the used figures looked like a tower.

    And a charioteer move on a battlefield would be a storming through everything in one direction.