The Buddha HATED Chess, and told his disciples to avoid it at all costs

The Buddha knew that Chess was a purposeless activity that harmed the mind and caused suffering. See #1 on the list:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_games_that_Buddha_would_not_play

Buddha taught his disciples that playing Chess was like mocking a deformed person (#16 on the list).

If you play Chess, Why do you hate the Buddha?

Fortunately it hadn't been invented yet...so no big whoop.

Games on boards with 8 or 10 rows.

This includes the ancestor of chess, ashtapada, and would include chess today.

So Buddha definitely put any game including chess in his most hated list of activities.

Anyone that would keep me from playing Chess...Can go jump into a lake! - :]

"Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly. " - Buddha

@h2b2 said in #5:

"Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly. " - Buddha

Here's hoping.

The Buddha lost to scholar's mate 8 times in a row and was eternally salty about it. Historical fact.

@ibrahimmoiZOOS said in #3:

This includes the ancestor of chess, ashtapada, and would include chess today.

So Buddha definitely put any game including chess in his most hated list of activities.

Still ancestor of chess and present day chess are highly different. You can't call them same.
Don't use the word chess wrongly.
Buddha hated some type of game but not chess.
And were you alive when he said it? So, just keep quiet.

@Akbar2thegreat said in #8:

Buddha hated some type of game but not chess.

Buddha hated any board game with 8 or 10 rows. Chess is a game with 8 rows.

Therefore, Buddha hated Chess. Who are you to question the Buddha? You think you are better than the Buddha, wiser than Buddha?

Buddha would also hate Arimaa (invented in 1997) because it is an 8x8 board game.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arimaa

Siddhartha Gautama is said to have lived to about 80 years old. Most of those 80 years were very boring.