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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]
John Ayer wrote on Fri, Sep 18, 2009 12:55 AM UTC:
It occurred to me that in shrinking Shatranj al-Kamil v.1 back onto an 8x8 board it would have been cleverer to combine the dabbabahs and alfils into alibabas, and possibly upgrade the ferz to move one square in any direction.