Rearrange the following five sentences (A), (B), (C), (D) and (E) in the proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph then answer the questions given below them.

A. Chaturanga, a version of chess, was played in the durbar as well as on the streetside. 

B. Chess, in its indigenous versions, has existed for a long time in India and also finds references in the country’s epics, songs and movies. 

C. After Manuel Aaron became India’s first International Master in 1961, it took another 26 years for the emergence of the first Grand Master, Viswanathan Anand. 

D. As a consequence, perhaps, India’s strides in chess were more incremental than exponential.

E. But formalised Western chess took time to capture imaginations in this country.