Story Of Chess Lyrics - Chess In Concert (2 Cd) - Josh Groban

Arbiter: 

Each game of chess means there's one less 

Variation left to be played 

Each day got through means one or two 

Less mistakes remain to be made 

Ensemble: 

Not much is known 

Of early days of chess beyond a fairly vague report 

Male Solo: 

That fifteen hundred years ago two princes fought 

Though brothers, for a Hindu throne 

Female Solo: 

Their mother cried 

For no-one really likes their offspring fighting to the death 

She begged them stop the slaughter with her every breath 

But sure enough one brother died 

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Female Ensemble: 

Sad beyond belief 

She told her winning son 

Female Solo: 

You have caused such grief 

I can't forgive this evil thing you've done 

Male Ensemble: 

He tried to explain 

How things had really been 

Male Solo: 

But he tried in vain 

No words of his could mollify the queen 

Female Solo: 

And so he asked the wisest men he knew 

The way to lessen her distress 

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Arbiter: 

They told him he'd be pretty certain to impress 

By using model soldiers on 

A chequered board to show it was his brother's fault 

All: 

They thus invented chess 

Male ensemble: 

Chess displayed no inertia 

Soon spread to Persia, then west 

Female ensemble: 

Next the Arabs refined it, 

Thus redesigned, it progressed 

Male Solo: 

Still further yet 

And when Constantinople fell in 1453 

One would have noticed every other refugee 

Included in his bags a set 

Female Solo: 

Once in the hands 

And in the minds of leading figures of the Renaissance 

Male Solo: 

The spirit and the speed of chess made swift advance 

Through all of Europe's vital lands 

Ensemble: 

Where we must record 

The game was further changed 

Right across the board 

The western touch upon the pieces ranged 

King and queen and rook 

And bishop, knight and pawn 

All took on the look 

We know today, the modern game was born 

Arbiter: 

And in the end 

We see a game that started by mistake in Hindustan 

And boosted in the main by what is now Iran 

Become the simplest and most complicated pleasure 

Yet devised for just the kind of mind who would appreciate 

This well researched and fascinating yarn.