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	Shatranj - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Shatranj or shatranji is an old form of chess, from which modern chess has gradually developed.
		Pawns in Shatranj moved as in chess, but they did not have the option of moving two squares on the first move.
		During the rules of arabic caliphs, shatranj players of highest class were called aliyat or grandees.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shatranj (1091 words)

	Shatranj - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Shatranj or shatranji, also called medieval chess, is an ancient Persian game from which modern chess developed, and which is thought by some scholars to be the common ancestor of chess, Xiangqi, Shogi, Janggi and Makruk.
		Pawns in Shatranj did not have the option of moving two squares on the first move.
		Capturing all one's opponent's pieces apart from the king (baring the king) was a win, unless your opponent could capture your last piece on their next move, when it is a draw.
	www.americancanyon.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Chatrang (361 words)

	AlShindagah Online
		Shatranj, as the Arabs called it, or what in the West became popular as the game of chess, once found in early Arab culture a springboard for its development and popularity to become the most highly recognized board game of today.
		So involved was Al-Adli with shatranj that he also found additional uses for the square pattern on the board besides purely playing on it.
		After shatranj was embraced by the Arab culture following the Muslim conquest of Persia, there might have been some peculiar changes in the physical outlook of the game.
	www.alshindagah.com /marapr2002/chess.html (1772 words)

	Shatranj Plus
		Shatranj Kamil I (Complete Chess variation I) on a 10x10 board, with the addition of Camel pieces.
		Shatranj Kamil II (Complete Chess variation II) on a 10x10 board, with the addition of War Machines, instead of Camels.
		Shatranj Al-Husun (Citadel Chess) on a 10x10 board with extra "citadel" squares on the corners.
	www.chessvariants.com /link2.dir/shatranjplus.html (410 words)

	Shatranj
		Castling is not permitted as this double-move was introduced to Chess some eight hundred years after the introduction of Shatranj, in the 15th century.
		White may commence a game of Shatranj on Rank 1 and Rank 2 or on Rank 7 and Rank 8.
		The main difference between Shatranj and traditional western Chess as we know it, is that in Shatranj, a win can be achieved by taking all of your adversary’s pieces, except the King - you do not need to force checkmate (++CM).
	www.chess-poster.com /english/chesmayne/shatranj.htm (236 words)

	Shatranj
		Shatranj is the second known variant of chess.
		Shatranj is said to have supported professional players, spawned several books and inspired its own body of chess problems.
		Also every Shatranj related ZRF that I have tested will record a 'bare king victory' without giving a chance to make a final move resulting in a 'two bare kings draw'.
	www.chessvariants.com /historic.dir/shatranj.html (1257 words)

	Shatranj (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Shatranj is an ancient Persian game which is presumed to be the common ancestor of chess, Xiangqi, Shogi, Janggi and Makruk.
		Shatranj came to Persia from the Indian game of Chaturanga.
		Bishops, which were called elephants, moved exactly two squares diagonally, jumping over the intervening square.
	www.theezine.net /s/shatranj.html (223 words)

	Ancient India - Sports & Games
		Shatranj as Forbes has pointed out, is a foreign word among the Persians and the Arabians, whereas its natural derivation from the term Chaturanga is obvious.
		The Encyclopedia Britannica concludes that "Other Persian and Arabian writers state that Shatranj came into Persia from India and there appears to be a consensus of opinion that may be considered to settle the question.
		That the source of the European game is Arabic is clear enough, nor merely from the words "check" and "mate", which are evidently from Shah mat ("the king is dead"), but also from the names of some of the pieces".
	www.crystalinks.com /indiasports.html (2388 words)

	SchemingMind.com - Online Correspondence Chess Club. Play free online chess and chess variants
		It is logical to conclude that every one of the sections of the book required a deep understanding of the Shatranj game, and that many years and generations of players were needed to make possible that one talented man as Al-Adli recuperated the learnings of years of playing.
		It is easy to see the similarities between Shatranj in its period of prosperity, and modern chess, and this goes beyond the pieces used and the movements, for as today, it involved an entire culture dedicated to the game in the Arab world.
		To have a closer look to Shatranj here are some ancient mansubat or chess problems as they were published more than a thousand of years ago.
	www.schemingmind.com /journalarticle.aspx?article_id=3&page=1 (920 words)

	Chess - Online Guide
		The other main changes between Chaturanga and the 2 player form of Chess, Shatranj, are the two Rajahs were demoted to Prime Ministers in the change to the two player form and their movement reduced making them much weaker while the moves of the Elephant and the Ship were swapped around.
		The first reference to Shatranj occurs in a Persian book written around 600 AD which says that a Hind ambassador came to Persia from India during the reign of Naushirawan (Chosroes I, 531 - 579 AD) and presented the game to him as one of several gifts with a challenge to learn its secrets.
		It is known that Shatranj was held in some esteem at the court of Saladin, who created the Ayubite dynasty in Egypt and Syria and the Christians certainly obtained medical secrets from physicians in this dynasty.
	www.tradgames.org.uk /games/Chess.htm (2877 words)

	ChessBase Puzzles
		In manuscripts from the early 7th century a game called Chaturanga”; (which later changed to “Shatranj”) is suddenly mentioned, a precursor of chess as we know it today.
		Naturally we cannot be sure that there were no earlier forms, but the evidences seems to suggest that the game was invented from scratch by a single person in this area of the world at around this period of time.
		The rules of Shatranj were very similar to those modern chess.
	www.chessbase.com /puzzle/puzz01a.htm (550 words)

	The Black Genesis of Chess at OnePeoples.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Shatranj was derived from Chaturanga, a board game originating in India in the 6th century which featured only four types of pieces: elephants, chariots, calvary, and infantry.
		It is befitting that chess was a favorite Moorish pastime as many enjoyed the challenge of warfare strategy and tactics, and perhaps many were strong players.
		Although Hannibal, the Moor of Carthage (247-183 BC) would not have played Shatranj, his military ingenuity would indicate that he participated in some aspect of war simulation.
	onepeoples.com /current/blackgenesis.htm (637 words)

	ICC Help: Shatranj
		The variant Shatranj reflects the way chess was played before the game took its final form we know today around 1500 A.D. For details on the historic development, see help Shatranj2.
		In this last case (bare king), however, your opponent is allowed to make one more move and if he can take your last non-king piece as well, the game is draw.
		This is wild 28, so to start a game of Shatranj with someone, you would do "match someone 10 10 w28" or seek a game as with "seek 10 10 w28".
	www.chessclub.com /help/Shatranj (289 words)

	Chess (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Chaturanga later developed into the Islamic game, shatranj, which is closer related to modern chess.
		With the Moorish invasions of Spain, and the Islamic presence in Sicily shatranj was brought to Europe.
		Shatranj was also exported to Russia through trade routes.
	faculty.smu.edu /bwheeler/Ency/chess.html (616 words)

	The Chess Page
		Shatranj spread from Persia through Arabia and to Byzantium.
		The rules of the game, the setup, and the moves of the pieces resemble those of modern chess, but without the scope granted to the equivalent of the bishop (elephant) and queen (prime minister).
		The moves were similar to those of Shatranj, except that there was no pawn promotion.
	www.stmoroky.com /games/chess/chess.htm (3464 words)

	Zillions of Games Discussion Forum
		Shatranj games were rarely recorded when the game was widely-played, because the slow opening was viewed casually.
		The Ubar site is basically Roman era, and recent scholarship suggests that chess was around in some form by the 3rd century AD (there is a mention in the Talmud).
		A valid username and password combination is required to post messages to this discussion.
	www.zillions-of-games.com /discus/messages/102/147.html (158 words)

	History of Chess - Earliest Chess Books and References
		Perhaps the first reference to Chatrang (later becoming shatranj), the Persian word for chess, was The Karnamak-i-Artakhshatr-i-Papakan (The Records of Ardashir, son of Papak).
		It was a text to honor Ardashir (Artaxerxes), the founder of the Sassanid Kingdom, who ruled Persia from 226 to 241.
		An Arabic book of Shatranj problems was written by ar-Razi, called Latif fi-sh shatranj (Elegance in Chess), written around 845.
	www.geocities.com /SiliconValley/Lab/7378/oldtexts.htm (2718 words)

	The bump-and-grind on a Saturday night (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		According to Poonawalla, GM of Shatranj Napoli, “Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays are the worst nights, because we have around 200 customers and 50 cars.” The restaurant has four valets, who all park cars in the numerous bylanes near Union Park.
		Both Shatranj and Olive have security guards who patrol the areas where the cars are usually parked, so there is no question of the cars not being secure.
		And while the restaurateurs seem undaunted by the prospect of squeezing cars into the area’s narrow bylanes, residents have often remarked on how the congestion in the area is one of the downsides to sharing an address with these swanky outlets.
	web.mid-day.com /metro/bandra/2005/july/112833.htm (1084 words)

	Revisiting 1857: Satyajit Ray's vision
		Shatranj Ke Khilari brilliantly depicts the increasing apathy of the Indian upper class, showing how even seemingly harmless passion can become all-encompassing obsession, and banalities of the daily games overpower life itself.
		The film boasts of exclusively brilliant performances, especially from Saeed Jaffrey and Amjad Khan, and the period setting is established not by lavish epic sets, but rather through exclusion.
		I feel Shatranj ke khiladi (SKK) is one of Satyajit Ray's most overrated films and also his weakest.
	inhome.rediff.com /movies/2005/aug/23shat.htm (954 words)

	tribuneindia... Himachal
		SHIMLA, Sept 30 — "Shatranj", the latest computer software developed by the Army Training Command, the thinktank of the Army, will put the country on a par with advanced countries like the USA in simulated warfare technology.
		Stating this at a press conference organised on the eve of the 8th raising day of the Artrac here today, Lt Gen Vijay Oberoi, GOC-in-Chief, said the integration of emerging technologies and doctrines into the structuring of the Army was essential for facing the challenges of the 21st century.
		He said "Shatranj" was a division-level wargame which would help carry out a battle exercise in a room which otherwise would have taken at least two months and involve about 1 lakh troops and 1,000 tanks in field situation.
	www.tribuneindia.com /1998/98oct01/himachal.htm (2736 words)

	txt_chess_players
		The Hindi story, "Shatranj ke khilari," on which this discussion is based, was published in the journal Madhuri (Sweetness; Lucknow) in 1924.
		In the Urdu story "Shatranj ki bazi," Premchand's narrator is deprived of the kind of distancing effect which could be achieved through the use of a Sanskritic vocabulary in the Hindi story.
		"Shatranj ke khilari" and "Shatranj ki bazi" might, for example, be contrasted with the Hindi and Urdu versions of "Idgah"/"Idgah" (Id-festival Grounds) first published in Urdu in 1933, which offers one of Premchand's very few highly sympathetic, even admiring, portrayals of Muslim culture.
	www.columbia.edu /itc/mealac/pritchett/00fwp/published/txt_chess_players.html (7135 words)

	Chesmayne - Chess Dictionary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Shatranj is the Arabic name under which chess was known from the 7
		09 Shatranj has its own canon of names for openings etc: Goat Peg, Wonderful and Lovely, Pharaoh’s Fortress and the Sword Opening being examples, which are called ‘Tabia’.
		The main difference between Shatranj and traditional western chess as we know it, is that in Shatranj, a win can be achieved by taking all of your adversary’s MPs/mps, except the KI - you do not need to force checkmate (++CM).
	chess-dictionary-chesmayne.net /Shatranj.htm (1637 words)

	Chess History - ChessBaron Chess
		This may be modelled by the Indian army platoon which had four parts - elephants, chariots, soldiers on horseback, and foot-soldiers - a suitable and probable start for the chess history.
		The first possible reference to Chatrang (later becoming shatranj), the Persian word for chess, was The Karnamak-i-Artakhshatr-i-Papakan (The Records of Ardashir, son of Papak).
		Around 800 Chatrang-namak (Matigan-i-chatrang) was written in Pahlavi about the history of chatrang and the introduction of the game into Persia during the time of Khusraw I, who ruled from 531 to 578, giving increasing clarity to the history of chess.
	www.chessbaron.co.uk /history.htm (3053 words)

	Scene & Heard - Events - Express Hotelier & Caterer
		There were two parties in succession, one at Shatranj Napoli hosted by 20th Century Fox and the other at Ambassador Hotel hosted by Raj Travels and Tours that takes you places just like all the James Bond movies.
		While the Ambassador Hotel party did not seem to bring alive the aura of the Bond movies, the one at Shatranj Napoli took you to Bondland with decor of ice, gadgets, special Bond cocktails, title songs from the movies and a sprinkling of Bond girls.
		Shatranj Napoli also staged a James Bond High Jinks promotion at its restaurant and sports bar.
	www.expresshotelierandcaterer.com /20030106/events2.shtml (545 words)

	Modern Shatranj
		This old and simple shatranj problem uses only modern pieces and rules.
		Old shatranj problem in which one must determine in what order white must check fl.
		Easy shatranj problem with a story about two kings and their kingdoms attached to it.
	play.chessvariants.org /pbm/presets/modern_shatranj.html (260 words)

	Shatranj Ke Khilari (The Chess Players): A film by Satyajit Ray :: SatyajitRay.org
		It is 1856, the eve of the first Indian struggle for independence (The Mutiny of 1857).
		Shatranj Ke Khilari was Ray's most expensive film boasting of stars from western and Hindi cinema of Bombay.
		It was reported to have cost about two million rupees in comparison of his earlier films that were made under half a million rupees.
	www.satyajitray.org /films/shatran.htm (1505 words)

	Problems
		In Arab countries from the sixth Century, a variation of Chaturanga, called Shatranj was played.
		Regarding the back row of pieces, the King, the Rook and the Knight move in the same way as their modern counterparts, while the Elephant (later becoming a Bishop) jumped two squares diagonally, and the General (later becoming the Queen) moved one square diagonally.
		It is from Shatranj that, we believe, is found the origin of the Chess Problem.
	www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Projects/MacQuarrie/Chapters/Ch2.html (1309 words)

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