Shatranj

the Arabic and Persian precurser of Western Chess and one successor of the ancient [|Indian] [|strategy game] [|Chaturanga]. Chaturanga developed in the [|Gupta Empire] during the [|6th century] [|CE] and was adopted as Shatranj in [|Sasanian Empire] in the [|7th century]. In computer chess, due to extensions of the Chess Engine Communication Protocol, XBoard and WinBoard support Shatranj with [|Elephants] and General instead of Bishop and Queen. || toc =Pieces=
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 * [[image:shatranj.gif width="249" height="296" link="http://hgm.nubati.net/"]] ||~  || **Shatranj**,
 * Shatranj with WinBoard ||~  ||^   ||
 * [|Shāh] (King)
 * [|Fers] or [|Wazīr] (General) - moves one square diagonally, often represented by a Queen symbol
 * Rukh (Rook)
 * [|Pīl or Alfil] (Elephant) - a [|(2,2) Leaper], often represented by a Bishop symbol
 * Faras or Asb (Knight)
 * Baidaq (Pawn)

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 * No castling
 * No double pawn push, promotion to Fers only
 * Stalemate counts as a win
 * Two bare Kings count as a draw
 * One Bare King counts as a win, provided the other King cannot be bared on the very next move
 * The initial setup (array) is similar to Orthodox Chess, with Elephants replacing Bishops and Generals replacing Queens, but Shāh on the d-file.

=See also=
 * Shatranj (toolkit) by Sam Tannous

=Forum Posts=
 * [|Any WB Shatranj engines out there?] by Harm Geert Muller, CCC, July 31, 2008
 * [|Shartranj!] by Harm Geert Muller, CCC, August 14, 2008
 * [|Shatranj perfts] by Paul Byrne, CCC, February 24, 2012 » Perft
 * [|Chess variant tournament: Shatranj] by Ola Mikael Hansson, CCC, February 24, 2013

=External Links= > [|Al-Suli's Diamond]
 * [|Shatranj from Wikipedia]
 * [|Shatranj] by [|Hans L. Bodlaender] from [|The Chess Variant Pages]
 * [|Abu Bakr bin Yahya al-Suli from Wikipedia]
 * [|ICC Help: shatranj] (Wild 28)
 * [|Shatranj] from [|BoardGameGeek]
 * [|Shatranj, the medieval Arabian Chess] by [|Jean-Louis Cazaux]
 * [|The Time of Shatranj and the Aliyat] by Miguel Villa
 * [|Chess Engine Communication Protocol - 8. Commands from xboard to the engine - variant shatranj]

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