Enter Your Reply The Comment You're Replying To Joe Joyce wrote on Sun, Dec 11, 2005 07:31 AM UTC:Hello, David. I would be happy to swap games with you. I'd love to try an 8x10 shatranj game. It will probably take me a few days to get a skeleton GC preset together, non-rules-enforcing so we have the choice of specific pieces*. Never played Makruk, or any of your variants, so whatever you want is fine with me. Ten moves a week is at the upper limit of my practical ability, but five per is a good number. Looking forward to it. Sufficient mating force: the pieces I'm inclined to use in our game of 'great shatranj' (an awkward name for an 8x10 size) are the 1-step slide, 2-step jump pieces, like the Modern (Shatranj) Elephant. The dabbabah-wazir ('dababba') steps one or jumps two orthogonally. Clearly, the 2-step dababba-rider Gary Gifford and I are using in the Grand Shatranj test game can, with the king, checkmate a bare king, having a move of 1, 2, 3, or 4 squares. But the Modern Dababba moves only 1 or 2 squares. Can king and dababba checkmate lone king? *great rationalization for my being unable to do anything more than gut a pre-existing preset. Edit Form You may not post a new comment, because ItemID ShatranjSwapMeet does not match any item.