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Chaturanga is a game information page. It is categorized as: Two dimensional, From ancient times.

Chaturanga. (8x8, Cells: 64) (Recognized!)

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By many scientists, Chaturanga is considered to be the first variant of chess. It has in it already many of the elements of the game as we play it now, but is somewhat slower. The game is element of several legends, and was often played for a stake.

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The board used for this game has 8 row(s), 8 column(s), 64 cells/squares.
This game is a 2 player game.

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File size:	5.09k
File modified:	May 20 2005 08:06:26 PM
Creation Date:	1995-00-00
Modified Date:	2001-01-04
Author:	Hans L. Bodlaender [info]
URL:	historic.dir/chaturanga.html

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Date	Name	Rating	Comment	Edit
Chaturanga. (8x8, Cells: 64) (Recognized!)
2006-01-19		Poor	There is almost no detalils about where chaturanga/chess came from, where it orginated.	View [*]
2005-12-04	Tony Quintanilla	None	Celine Roos writes: Hello, I'm Celine Roos WIM. It was just luck that I found a page through Google search for Books which linked to a French translation of an 1805 report established by a Research Society on Bengalese studies. The book is free of copyright, here are the libraries where it is available. http://worldcatlibraries.org/wcpa/oclc/07026195 Also here you can see the whole book: here or just the article (starting p 207): here I guess the English original must be available somewhere. If I had more time, I would propose a translation into English but I'm terribly busy these days, having left the world of chess for the world of National Education in France. Yours, C�line Roos Strasbourg - France	Edit View [*]
2005-11-07		Excellent	great game to play with a regular chess borad use bishops for elephants and the queen for the chanssler(ferz)	View [*]
2005-10-16		Excellent		View [*]
2005-08-09	Christine Bagley-Jones	None	oh that is pretty sad, i didn't know it was removed. was there a vote taken to remove it? may the chess gods have mercy on this site lol :) i don't understand the comment .. 'we don't know enough about chaturanga to actually recognize it' .. isn't it the game that is generally accepted as the mother of chess, isn't it the game that inspired 'shatranj' .. the game where the king starts on e1, and the game where the king can move like a knight 1 time during the game etc etc .. we can recognize it, we just don't fully know the rules (maybe) reading in your section 'what is a recognized variant', chaturanga looks like one to me, i don't see anything saying that all the rules must be known. and it is not the fault of the game that all the rules are not known. anyway, with obviously such a huge historic ancient game, who cares if it is unclear. Tony Quintanilla makes a good point here with his comment, and i quote .. 'As far as 'recognized' goes, I would tend to think that both 'Chaturanga' and 'Shatranj' should be recognized, if for no other reason that the CVP articles on these games suggest that the Indian game migrated to Persia. Not 'recognizing' Chaturanga would seem to ignore this root.' ... [view entire]	Edit View [*]
Number of ratings: 47, Average rating: Good, Number of comments: 92