Tamerlane chess is a medieval chess variant. Like modern chess, it is derived from shatranj. It was developed in Central Asia during the reign of Emperor...
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com Cazaux, Jean-Louis (2012). "Full Tamerlane Chess" Archived 2014-06-20 at the Wayback Machine. History of Chess: chesspage of JL Cazaux. Tomašev, Nenad;...
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A fairy chess piece, variant chess piece, unorthodox chess piece, or heterodox chess piece is a chess piece not used in conventional chess but incorporated...
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Three-dimensional chess (or 3‑D chess) is any chess variant that replaces the two-dimensional board with a three-dimensional array of cells between which...
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second half of the 12th century. Tamerlane chess: A significantly expanded variation of shatranj. Banqi (or Chinese Half chess) (China) Chandraki (Tibet) Game...
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shatranj, Tamerlane chess, shogi, and xiangqi also evolved. Many chess variants are designed to be played with the equipment of regular chess. Most variants...
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Chessboard (redirect from Chess Board)
century was the cylindrical board for use in cylinder chess. The board used for the Persian Tamerlane chess is one of the first recorded variant chessboards...
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Shatranj (redirect from Early Arabic chess literature)
a larger 10×11 board derivative; the 14th-century Tamerlane chess, or shatranj kamil (perfect chess), with a slightly different piece structure.[citation...
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an enlarged variation of the game which is commonly referred to as Tamerlane chess. This complex game involved each pawn having a particular purpose,...
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dabbaba is a very old piece, appearing in some very early chess variants, such as Tamerlane chess. The name dabbaba (Arabic: دَبَّابَة) means "tank" in Modern...
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