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Wild Samarkand. This is a Game Courier preset for Wild Samarkand, one of the variants from the Timurid Family. (12x12, Cells: 144) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Bn Em wrote on Thu, Feb 8 02:24 AM UTC in reply to Florin Lupusoru from Wed Feb 7 03:30 PM:

his chess variant was not even that great

The distinction there is probably not so much one of quality as of priority; it's one of the earliest enlargements of Shatranj (behind Grant Acedrex) that did more than add one, maybe two, pairs of pieces to the board.


François Houdebert wrote on Wed, Feb 7 05:13 PM UTC in reply to Florin Lupusoru from 03:30 PM:

In fact, it's the modernization of one the historic variant probably played in persia in that time.

There are several versions of them, but it's mainly a parameterization of different pieces for the same structure of game.


Florin Lupusoru wrote on Wed, Feb 7 03:30 PM UTC:

I don't understand this obsession with Tamerlane.

He was a mass murderer who used to torture people and animals for fun. And his chess variant was not even that great. It was unecessarily complicated and hard to play. 


🔔Notification on Mon, Feb 5 07:55 PM UTC:

The author, Jean-Louis Cazaux, has updated this page.


💡📝Jean-Louis Cazaux wrote on Sun, Feb 4 05:34 PM UTC:

This page, 1 of the 8 to play a Timurid variant (authored by F.Houdebert) is ready for publication.

It contains both a link to a GC preset and an ID.


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