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

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

Author: Hans L. Bodlaender.
Web page created: 1995-00-00. Web page last updated: 2001-01-04

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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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Date	Name	Rating	Comment	Edit
Chaturanga. (8x8, Cells: 64) (Recognized!)
2009-03-14	optional	None	Does that apply for Star Trek 3D and Jetan, also? Imagine Martians landing on Earth, and excavating our vanished 20th century civilization. They could, without being able to read anything, reconstruct the basic rules of chess from all the pictures. But could they possibly know about 'touch rules'? And how long would they argue over the details of castling and en passant vs passar battaglia? Yet, they would have, and probably be playing, chess, in spite of their not officially knowing the rules, or even being able to determine all the nuances of the rules. We are currently in the same position vis a vis chaturanga that our Martians are with chess. We know dice games, race games, the 4-sided and later 2-sided setups, and we know the rules to its child shatranj. I suggest that is enough to give the game legitimacy. We don't know the rules, but we still have the game, especially in the wider sense of chess variations. Ignoring it is the bigger sin.	View [*]
2009-03-14	John Smith	Poor	I agree that it is strange that an unscrupulous variant be recognized. What game exactly is this? We should recognize also 'Chootooroonkoo', which is the truly original form of Chess from ancient Goobleland, which is played on a board with squares and with pieces that move, other details unknown.	Edit View [*]
2009-03-13	Nuno Cruz	Poor	John Ayer's very complete and acute comments our remarks are so true. This form of chess never existed. At least with this set of rules that is just an erroneous conception of John Gollon. So this page should have already been at least corrected if you do not want to scrap it, which would be preferable; to end the discussion and stop people, especially the new ones to this site, to believe in a 'Lord of the Rings' kind of world -beautiful but non-existing. Of course you would have to rewrite the very front page of chessvariants pages. I believe that for the sake of truth it is worth it. The same goes to both Shatranj Kamil. All it is needed to do is to read carefully the pages on Murray's book the source of - good intentioned but in his case wrong - Gollon.	View [*]
2009-03-10	Sledge290	Good	I like the depth of the article. It is a short article to be sure. I like the subject of chess. I like the game of chess.	View [*]
2008-09-28	matthew	Poor	How do I play chaturanga ?? I once played the game verses the computer. Your page seems to have changed since I visited last. Any information on this topic whould be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance for you help. matt	View [*]
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