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Andrew Wong wrote on Tue, Aug 4, 2015 03:02 PM UTC:
I'm writing an article on this game but I'm not sure if links to it would be allowed.
I'll post a few extracts:
"... The elephant gained the power to move one square diagonally, allowing it to reach any square of the same colour it starts on, whereas the original elephant from Chaturanga could only reach a few squares on the entire 8 by 8 board.

The pieces have been carefully guarded so that the cannon is not able to take a piece after just a few moves without it being captured back.

Personally I haven’t had the chance to try this game out thoroughly yet, so I’m not sure how well it plays out, but just for the sake of the “East meets West” ideology, I think it is worth playing. I would possibly also add the silver from Japanese chess as the piece appears in Thai chess, Burmese chess as well, thus making it more “East”, since the only “Eastern-ness” of the game is only from the cannon, whereas the addition of the elephant piece represented a majority of the old chess forms, such as Kurierspiel (where the elephant still existed), Chaturanga and Shatranj."

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