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CHESS - Das Musical - The Story Of Chess
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THE STORY OF CHESS (Concept Album)
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Musik
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Benny Andersson/Björn Ulvaeus
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Text
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Tim Rice
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Arrangement
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Anders Eljas
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Gesangspart
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Chor
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wissenswertes
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Chor
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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
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Not much is known
Of early days of chess beyond a fairly vague report
That fifteen hundred years ago two princes fought,
Though brothers, for a Hindu throne
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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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Sad beyond belief
She told her winning son
You have caused such grief-
I can't forgive
This evil thing you've done
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He tried to explain
How things had really been
But he tried in vain
No words of his
could satisfy the queen
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And so he asked
the wisest men he knew
The way to lessen her distress
They told him he'd be pretty certain to impress
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By using model soldiers on
A checkered board to show it was his brother's fault
They thus invented chess
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Chess displayed no inertia
Soon spread to Persia
Then west
Next the Arabs refined it
Thus redesigned, it
Progressed
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Still further yet
And when Constantinople fell in 1453
One would have noticed every other refugee
Included in his bags a set
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Once in the hands
And in the minds of leading figures of the Renaissance
The spirit and the speed of chess made swift advance
Through all of Europe's vital lands
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Where we must record
The game was further changed
Right across the board
The western touch
Upon the pieces ranged
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King and queen and rook
And bishop, knight and pawn
All took on the look
We know today
The modern game was born
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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
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