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Game Courier Tournament #2. Sign up for our 2nd multi-variant tournament to be played all on Game Courier.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
🕸📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Mon, Mar 21, 2005 07:13 PM UTC:
Since there doesn't seem to be any authentic historic account of Chaturanga, and since Gollon's description of the game was actually based on other games, and since Shatranj is the oldest variant for which we have an authentic historic account of the rules, I propose that, at least for the purposes of this tournament, that we treat Shatranj and Chaturanga as essentially the same game and substitute Shatranj for Chaturanga in the lineup of the games to be played. If anyone has objections, let me know.