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What are the rules of Shatranj? - Chess Stack Exchange I believe Chaturanga is the same game as Shatranj or got only slightly varied while moved from India to Sassanid Persia So, I understand that the earliest form of chess in Persia and the Middle East was called Shatranj and derived from Indian Chaturanga What are the rules of this early form of chess?
What is a tabiya and what is their importance? - Chess Stack Exchange It was used in the answer to this question and also in the Dan Heisman article linked to from that question but they both seem to define it as a standard sequence of opening moves however, I think the word tabiya refers to a position rather than the sequence of moves to arrive at it, and also that the position must have multiple continuations of equal merit, which is what I'm trying to confirm I guess
Ancient style chess games? - Chess Stack Exchange I am talking about shatranj but its now synonymous with chess Obviously it will be next to impossible to find a game played in chaturangam The ancient rules of shatranj were modified by the British and hence the modern game of chess
rules - What is Indian Castling exactly? - Chess Stack Exchange Shatranj is a variation of Chaturanga, I think, and if the goal is to capture the king So "stalemate" as we know it doesn't exist, and therefore so doesn't check I admit that this interpretation of the check is my opinion, so it is still unclear, but what is clear is where on the board "Indian Castling" can take place
Why do some openings have Indian in their name? In early versions of Shatranj, the starting positions included the fianchetto, which is common in all of the modern chess openings you listed This is why these openings have the word Indian in them
Was there a chess piece—elephant, knight or rook—rendered as a being . . . In shatranj, the game out of which chess developed, the rukhs (rooks) are portrayed a bit like the way you describe That Wikipedia article contains this illustration of a 12th-century Iranian shatranj set The designs of the pieces are rather abstract but the rukh design suggests two heads facing away from each other