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Chess. The rules of chess. (8x8, Cells: 64) (Recognized!)[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Gary Gifford wrote on Sun, Oct 15, 2006 09:10 PM UTC:
Gilbert Luong asks if anyone knows why Chess and Xianqi are so similar in
game play.  But we should also mention Shogi.  And there are some other
closely related variants too.  My guess is that Chess, Shogi, and Xianqi
all originated from the older Shatranj.  And of course there is Korean
Chess, which is a spin-off of Chinese Chess.

On a somewhat related note, as it pertains to game and piece evolution, I
created Shatranj Darwinian (a game at CV) a while back as a model to show
how pieces could have evolved from simple Wazir and Ferz to the peices we
see today in both Western and Chinese Chess.  Such a piece evolution seems
quite logical.