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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]
💡📝Jean-Louis Cazaux wrote on Sun, Feb 4, 2024 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.


🔔Notification on Mon, Feb 5, 2024 07:55 PM UTC:

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


Florin Lupusoru wrote on Wed, Feb 7, 2024 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. 


François Houdebert wrote on Wed, Feb 7, 2024 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.


Bn Em wrote on Thu, Feb 8, 2024 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.


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