Researchers uncover 1000-year-old chess piece close to Reutlingen | EUROtoday

Wolfram von Eschenbach already knew that chess was not only a sport for knights within the early Middle Ages, however could possibly be important to survival. In his verse “Parzival”, written round 1200, the knight Gawan, cornered within the citadel tower, protects himself towards his attackers with a chessboard, utilizing the items as projectiles. Chess was a preferred sport amongst knights within the Middle Ages – even in European castles. This is now additionally confirmed by a discovery by the “ResourceCultures” collaborative analysis space of ​​the German Research Foundation and the State Office for Monument Preservation within the Stuttgart Regional Council: In the district of Reutlingen, archaeologists found an virtually 1000-year-old knight determine carved from antler below the stays of the partitions of a beforehand unknown citadel complicated close to Lichtenstein.