Special historical chess questions.

I know chess has been around for a very long time, but the last changes made on piece mobility makes the game different than in the past.

1) The tournament "Castling" rule was established in the year _____?
2) The tournament "En passant" rule was established in the year _____?
(The two square first move of a pawn was probably established before the en passant rule.)
3) The tournament "Pawn promotion" rule was established in the year _____?
4) The modern tournament "Draw rules" were established in the year ____ ?
5) When was the clock finally similar to todays time controls?
6) Increment time was finally established in tournaments in the year ____ ?
7) The King moves the same way since the year ____ ?
8) The Queen moves the same way since the year ____ ?
9) The Bishops move the same way since the year ____ ?
10) The Knights move the same way since the year _____ ?
11) The Rooks move the same way since the year ____ ?
12) The Pawns move the same way since the year ____ ?
13) The chess databases starts with what year ?
14) Is the pawn promotion rule the last change that could affect chess databases ?
15) Our modernized chess game is the same since the year _____ ?

Presumption: Any chess games played before the last historical major change would probably have been played out some what differently, because it did not have the same rules.

I don't think anybody can give you a specific year for any of those. I do know that the greatest chess change was when the queen could move as far as she could, this was in europe middle ages.

"The chess databases starts with what year ?"

There are a thousand plus databases. What one are you talking about?

For 8,7 and 11 the predecessor of chess (the name escapes me) all moved the same, their is a puzzle from the 6th century that is the same in modern chess.
For 5, if you mean when clocks were first used in a tournament it was London 1883.

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3) Well in 1862 it seems like pawn promotion rules were not the same as today. So that would seem like our modernised chess version started after this date. In 1883, the revised chess code mentioned "j'adouble", "promotions" and "castling". The promotions could not stay as pawns.

Would games that got adjourned after five hours be any different than todays games? I guess if the game was played with todays time controls things could be different, but over all it should not affect us reviewing the historical game because all the moves would still behave the same.

Of course adjourned games went differently, as players had teams of grandmasters to analyse for them. On the other hand modern top players have more endgame skill as they are on their own and with less available time.
The predecessor of chess was shatrang. Knight, Rook and King worked the same. The famous Arabic manuscript of 1145 shown a win K + R against K + N.

@CafeMorphy - I was told that when the "powerful queen" chess variation appeared in Italy, they used to call it "mad woman chess," because it was around the time of Joan of Arc's shenanigans.

@ Toscani - Most of those questions can be answered. I attempted to do so in a book I wrote several years back with some success. The problem is that the majority of information available online is made up. Google can't do this one. You'll need a librarian, an airplane, and a lot of spare time to visit libraries in Europe, or otherwise have resources sent to you. Best of luck.

Hello,

I've read somewhere that the castling rule appeared around 1560. After 1470, the Bishop and the Queen aren't limited in their moves anymore (Before 1470, two squares for the Bishop, one square for the Queen, if i remember well). The castling rule has been created because those two pieces became too powerful after 1470.
It seems that "En passant" has been created in the second half of the XVth century.