欧洲人考察中国象棋与中国人了解欧洲的国际象棋 ,据笔者考查 ,最早是以明末清初的来华传教士为媒介的。意大利耶稣会传教士利玛窦自１５８２年进入中国 ,为中世纪晚期中西文化的交流开创了新局面。他在晚年写成一部为人熟知的著作 :《利玛窦中国札记》（何济高等译本） ,在该 Europeans to study Chinese chess and Chinese to understand European chess, according to the author test, the earliest is based on the missionaries to China in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasty as a medium. Italian Jesuit missionary Matteo Ricci entered China in 1582, opening up a new phase for the exchange of Chinese and Western cultures in the late Middle Ages. In his later years, he wrote a well-known book: “Notes of Ricci China” (translated by He Ji Gao)