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**Chaturanga**,
a [[Chess Engine Communication Protocol]] aka [[WinBoard]] compatible chess engine by [[Stefano Malloggi]]. Chaturanga played the [[WCCC 2006]], and various [[Italian Computer Chess Championship]] <ref>[[http://www.stefanomalloggi.altervista.org/html/tournaments1.htm|Stefano Malloggi's home page  | Chaturanga Chess Engine | Tournaments]]</ref>. The name [[http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaturanga|Chaturanga]] is 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>.

=Selected Games=
[[WCCC 2006]], round 3, [[Chaturanga IT|Chaturanga]] - [[FIBChess]] <ref>[[http://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/round.php?tournament=16&round=3&id=8|Turin 2006 - Chess - Round 3 - Game 8 (ICGA Tournaments)]]</ref>
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[Event "WCCC 2006"]
[Site "Turin, Italy"]
[Date "2006.05.26"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Chaturanga"]
[Black "FIBChess"]
[Result "1-0"]

1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Nf6 5.Nxf6+ exf6 6.Nf3 Bd6 7.c4 O-O 
8.Be2 Bg4 9.c5 Bc7 10.O-O Re8 11.Be3 f5 12.Re1 f4 13.Bd2 Re4 14.Qb3 b5 
15.Rad1 Bxf3 16.Bxf3 Rxd4 17.Bxf4 Rxd1 18.Qxd1 Nd7 19.Bxc6 Bxf4 20.Bxa8 
Qc8 21.Bb7 Qxb7 22.Re8+ Nf8 23.Rxf8+ Kxf8 24.Qd8# 1-0
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=Photos=
|| [[image:WCCC2006Blitz2.JPG]] ||
|| [[WCCC 2006]] [[http://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/round.php?tournament=17|Blitz]]:  [[Stefano Malloggi]] and [[Vasik Rajlich]], [[Chaturanga IT|Chaturanga]] - [[Rybka|Rajlich]] 0-1 <ref>[[WCCC 2006]] Photo by [[Gerd Isenberg]]</ref> ||

=Namesake=
* [[Chaturanga]] by [[John Poduska, Jr.]]

=External Links=
* [[http://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/program.php?id=85|Chaturanga's ICGA Tournaments]]
* [[http://www.stefanomalloggi.altervista.org/|Stefano Malloggi's home page | Chaturanga Chess Engine]]
* [[http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/html/part.htm|Participants]] [[WBEC|WBEC Ridderkerk]]
* [[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]]

=References= 
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