Ben Reiniger wrote on Sun, Dec 3, 2017 09:07 PM UTC:
I seem to have found an answer:
The game is chess, with new names, and technically a different goal:
While the object of chess, the distant descendant of the Art of Asha, is to overcome and capture the opposing king, so that he has no hope of escape (called "check-mate '), the object of ASHA is quite different. While one side or the other may well arrive at "checkmate," it is the drama of Life itself the endlessly fascinating and eternally evolving battle of opposing forces that is the real "object." The microcosmos of ASHA teaches the players how to cooperate with the positive forces of Light in order to overcome the negative forces of darkness, and it is in the learning of these important lessons that the real object of ASHA is realized, regardless of which "side" a player may be on at the time.
I seem to have found an answer:
The game is chess, with new names, and technically a different goal:
https://communiu.home.xs4all.nl/Studymat/Briasha/B0700Asha.htm
It is listed in the Classified Encyclopedia of Chess Variants, section 12.11,
https://www.jsbeasley.co.uk/