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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.
The pawn has its origins in the oldest version of chess, chaturanga, and it is present in all other significant versions of the game as well. In chaturanga, this piece could move one square directly forward and could capture one square diagonally forward.
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]
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.
Chaturanga was introduced to the Middle East as shatranj around the 7th century. In shatranj, a pawn can be promoted only to a fers (equivalent to chaturanga's mantri). As chaturanga and shatranj spread to the western world and eastern Asia, as well as several other regions of the world, the promotion rule evolved.
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.
In the animated diagram, the black pawn advances two squares from g7 to g5, and the white pawn on f5 takes it en passant, landing on g6. Promotion : when a pawn advances to its last rank , it is promoted and replaced with the player's choice of a queen, rook, bishop, or knight.
Because Tamerlane chess is a larger variant of chaturanga, it is also called Shatranj Al-Kabir ... Thus, the pawn of giraffes becomes a giraffe, etc. Exceptions to ...