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Chaturanga (Sanskrit: चतुरङ्ग, IAST: caturaṅga, pronounced [tɕɐtuˈɾɐŋɡɐ]) is an ancient Indian strategy board game. It is first known from India around the seventh century AD. It is first known from India around the seventh century AD.
In chaturanga, a pawn is promoted upon reaching the last rank of the board. Historians dispute what the pawn can be promoted to. Some sources state that a pawn can be promoted only to a mantri , an early form of the queen only able to move one square diagonally, with the idea being that a foot soldier that advanced all the way through the enemy ...
On reaching the opposite end of the board, a pawn is promoted to a piece of the type that began on that square. If it is promoted on the king's initial position, it is promoted a queen. If there is one piece remaining other than the kings, it may not be captured. Alternatively, it may be captured unless it is a pawn. [clarification needed]
During the evaluation, players must take into account numerous factors such as the value of the pieces on the board, control of the center and centralization, the pawn structure, king safety, and the control of key squares or groups of squares (for example, diagonals, open files, and dark or light squares).
The rules of chaturanga seen in India today have enormous variation, but all involve four branches (angas) of the army: the horse (knight), the elephant (bishop), the chariot (rook) and the foot soldier (pawn), played on an 8×8 board. Shatranj adapted much of the same rules as chaturanga, and also the basic 16-piece structure.
Cubic Chess: Piece cubes display the six piece types; a player can promote any pawn by rotating its cube to match a captured piece type. By Vladimír Pribylinec (1977). Dragonfly: Played on a 7×7 or hex board, no queens, captured non-pawn pieces never die (à la Chessgi) and can be dropped on any open square. By Christian Freeling.
Pawn: Hū – Хүү – boy (the piece often showed a puppy) Names recorded from the 1880s by Russian sources, quoted in Murray, [ 47 ] [ 48 ] among the Soyot people (who at the time spoke the Soyot Turkic language ) include: merzé (dog), täbä (camel), ot (horse), ōl (child) and Mongolian names for the other pieces.
Tamerlane chess is a medieval chess variant.Like modern chess, it is derived from shatranj.It was developed in Central Asia during the reign of Emperor Timur, and its invention is also attributed to him. [1]