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Modern Shatranj. A bridge between modern chess and the historic game of Shatranj. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
💡📝Joe Joyce wrote on Thu, Aug 27, 2009 12:55 AM UTC:George, the scary part is that you are actually right. In a very real sense, Two Large Shatranj Variants, which uses MS as inspiration, springboard, and prelude, was an exercise in evolving shatranj, an alternate history for the game of chess. I was trying to comprehend the change from older shatranj to newer shatranj as it grew ever more powerful and 'modern', but stayed shatranj. In that sense, and it was one of the ways I was designing, all I did was look at one game, shatranj, from 5 or 6 different points of view. Shatranj, as itself, could not and did not survive. The fossilized remnants are preserved on this site and a few others. But of all the games played today with 'shatranj' in the name, very few are the historical version. All the others are games with a little more 'oomph', a bit of power to make them palatable to moderns.