Historical games / Medieval game tradition
Shatranj al-Mustatila
Chess, but make it weird
An elongated form of shatranj that raises the obvious question: what happens to the game when someone stretches the board and decides normal chess was insufficiently complicated?
Question
What happens to the game when someone stretches the board and decides normal chess was insufficiently complicated?
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Method
Observations
Result
Uncertainty
References
Next
- Document the source tradition, the playable system, and the reasoning behind the rules used.