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|| [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8b/Radha-Krishna_chess.jpg width="308" height="193" link="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaturanga"]] ||~   || **Chaturanga**,
a chess program by [[John Poduska, Jr.]] written in [[Pascal]]. In 1981 it searched about 1000 [[Nodes per second]] on a [[68000]] based [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Computer|Apollo]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workstation|workstation]] <ref>[[http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/full_record.php?iid=doc-431614f6ce737|The Twelfth ACM's North American Computer Chess Championship]], [[http://archive.computerhistory.org/projects/chess/related_materials/text/3-1%20and%203-2%20and%203-3.1981_ACM_NACCC/1981_ACM_NACCC.sm.062303017.pdf|pdf]] from [[The Computer History Museum]]</ref> . It competed twice at [[ACM North American Computer Chess Championship|ACM North American Computer Chess Championships]], [[ACM 1981]] and [[ACM 1982]].

The name [[http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaturanga|Chaturanga]] was derived from the ancient [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_subcontinent|Indian]] game which is presumed to be the common ancestor of the games of [[Chess]], [[Shogi]] and [[Chinese Chess]] <ref>[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origins_of_chess|History of chess from Wikipedia]]</ref> . ||
|| [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krishna|Krishna]] and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radha|Radha]] playing [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaturanga|Chaturanga]]
on an 8x8 Ashtāpada <ref>[[http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaturanga|Chaturanga from Wikipedia]]</ref> <ref>[[http://www.goddesschess.com/chessays/ashtapadacosmos.html|Chessays - Ashtapada and cosmology]] by [[http://ludicum.org/bgs08/invited|Prof. Rangachar Vasantha]], [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Krishnadevaraya_University|Sri Krishnadevaraya University]], [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anantapur,_Andhra_Pradesh|Anantapur]], [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andhra_Pradesh|Andhra Pradesh]], [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India|India]]</ref> ||~   ||^   ||
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=Namesake= 
* [[Chaturanga IT|Chaturanga]] by [[Stefano Malloggi]]

=External Links= 
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaturanga|Chaturanga from Wikipedia]]
* [[http://www.chessvariants.com/historic.dir/chaturanga.html|Chaturanga]] from [[http://www.chessvariants.com/|chessvariants.com]]

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