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Modern Shatranj. A bridge between modern chess and the historic game of Shatranj. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
💡📝Joe Joyce wrote on Fri, Sep 18, 2009 03:15 AM UTC:
John, that's very likely. If we speculate a bit, it's not hard to see exactly that happening in one or more places. And for the ancients [in chess, anyhow] the alibaba would be a great piece, doubling the range of the alfil. I believe you've found an intermediate variant, and one that's very likely to have been played somewhere, certainly far moreso than Modern Shatranj itself, I believe. MS is a 'modern thinking' game; what you described is an 'ancient thinking' game. Lol, you win!