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Story of Chess
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Josh Groban
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Arbiter:
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Each game of chess means there's one less
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Variation left to be played
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Each day got through means one or two
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Less mistakes remain to be made
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Ensemble:
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Not much is known
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Of early days of chess beyond a fairly vague report
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Male Solo:
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That fifteen hundred years ago two princes fought
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Though brothers, for a Hindu throne
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Female Solo:
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Their mother cried
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For no-one really likes their offspring fighting to the death
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She begged them stop the slaughter with her every breath
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But sure enough one brother died
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Female Ensemble:
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Sad beyond belief
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She told her winning son
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Female Solo:
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You have caused such grief
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I can't forgive this evil thing you've done
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Male Ensemble:
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He tried to explain
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How things had really been
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Male Solo:
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But he tried in vain
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No words of his could mollify the queen
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Female Solo:
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And so he asked the wisest men he knew
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The way to lessen her distress
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Arbiter:
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They told him he'd be pretty certain to impress
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By using model soldiers on
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A chequered board to show it was his brother's fault
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All:
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They thus invented chess
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Male ensemble:
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Chess displayed no inertia
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Soon spread to Persia, then west
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Female ensemble:
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Next the Arabs refined it,
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Thus redesigned, it progressed
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Male Solo:
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Still further yet
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And when Constantinople fell in 1453
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One would have noticed every other refugee
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Included in his bags a set
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Female Solo:
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Once in the hands
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And in the minds of leading figures of the Renaissance
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Male Solo:
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The spirit and the speed of chess made swift advance
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Through all of Europe's vital lands
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Ensemble:
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Where we must record
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The game was further changed
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Right across the board
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The western touch upon the pieces ranged
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King and queen and rook
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And bishop, knight and pawn
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All took on the look
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We know today, the modern game was born
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Arbiter:
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And in the end
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We see a game that started by mistake in Hindustan
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And boosted in the main by what is now Iran
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Become the simplest and most obligating pleasure
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Yet defies what just the kind of mind who would appreciate
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This well researched and fascinating yarn
celine dion ft. josh groban, the prayer
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