Chaturanga/Shatranj: Bare-King rule and Statring Position Considerations

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this is all great. but first we need to fix the name. we are playing shatranj not chaturanga. i'm excited for this ancient chess variants. maybe if there are enough players, in the future shogi and xiangqi can be added too!

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nico1270 ha scritto:

this is all great. but first we need to fix the name. we are playing shatranj not chaturanga. i'm excited for this ancient chess variants. maybe if there are enough players, in the future shogi and xiangqi can be added too!

Yeah, I mean, you are correct, that would be a nice fix, but I'm just happy now the game has the correct ruleset. 

Also, shogi and xiangqi would awesome to have but then we're not playing chess or a chess variant anymore, would we? Shogi is basically an entirely different game. Same with xiangqi and how would you program these different boards? How to contrast cheating in these variants? Wouldn't the community just be fractured?

I just don't think it's going to happen. Also these variants have dedicated sites already.

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yeah, let's focus first on having this done correctly. i'm happy that they fixed the rules and new pieces.

shogi and xiangqi are nice to have. i tried playing online on other sites these variants but those sites are impossible, bugged, not in english. definitely would prefer these variants more than sideways pawns or torpedo.