What a 8th Century Game would look like

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Gorgonops
how is this one?
Bobcat

very interesting.....but hard to follow

Gorgonops

the Queen can only move one space, the Bishop moves like a regualr bishop, but it jumps on space every time, and the Pawns, Rooks, and the King are the same

JuniorMinecraftian

I would sack my queen for a rook

Gorgonops

lol

Aurelia_BC

Did you make this game up?

Gorgonops

no, that was how it was played in the 8th century

Aurelia_BC

I mean the specific moves though, because there were a lot of mistakes.

JuniorMinecraftian

yes... THIS GAMEISN'T ACCURATE.

Gorgonops

yes i made the game, 

it was kind of hard because it is a totally different style

Gorgonops
bhenderson001 wrote:

The queen could only move one space diagonally like a checker.

the queen was just like another king, but without the check part

so it could move one space in any direction

Ubik42

Nice! 

JuniorMinecraftian
bhenderson001 wrote:

The queen could only move one space diagonally like a checker.

He's right. In fact, chess was called chaturaṅga back then. Here is a link to the site: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaturanga

 

  • Raja (king) (also spelled Rajah): moves one step in any direction (vertical, horizontal or diagonal), the same as the king in chess. There is no castling in chaturanga.
  • Mantri (minister or counselor); also known as Senapati (general): moves one step DIAGONNALY in any direction, like the fers in shatranj.
  • Ratha (chariot) (also spelled Śakata): moves the same as a rook in chess.
  • Gaja (elephant) (also spelled Gajah or Hasty): three different moves are described in ancient literature:
    1. Two squares in any diagonal direction, jumping over the first square, as the alfil in shatranj. This is a fairy chess piece which is a (2,2)-leaper.
      • The same move is used for the boat in chaturaji, a four-player version of chaturangam.[5]
      • The elephant in xiangqi has the same move, but without jumping.
    2. One step forward or one step in any diagonal direction.
      • The same move is used for the khon (nobleman) in makruk (Thai chess) and the sin (elephant) in sittuyin (Burmese chess), as well as for the silver general in shogi.
      • The move was described c. 1030 by Biruni in his book India.
    3. Two squares in any orthogonal (vertical or horizontal) direction, jumping over the first square.
      • A piece with such a move is called a dabbābah[6] in some chess variants. The move was described by the Arabic chess master al-Adli[7] c. 840 in his (partly lost) chess work. (The Arabic word dabbābah in former times meant a covered siege engine for attacking walled fortifications; today it means "army tank".)
      • The German historian Johannes Kohtz (1843–1918) suggests, rather, that this was the earliest move of the Ratha.
  • Ashva (horse) (also spelled Ashwa or Asva): moves the same as a knight in chess.
  • Padàti or Bhata (foot-soldier or infantry) (also spelled Pedati); also known as Sainik (warrior): moves and captures the same as a pawn in chess, but without a double-step option on the first move.
RichColorado

Was that 8th century A.D. Or 8th B.C.?

Gorgonops

AD, and i changed the game, how does it look now?

JuniorMinecraftian

hey last move isnt right; disable enforce legal moves to keep the game going

Gorgonops

which one, and how do you disable legal moves?

batgirl
JuniorMinecraftian wrote:
bhenderson001 wrote:

The queen could only move one space diagonally like a checker.

He's right. In fact, chess was called chaturaṅga back then.



That eighth century pre-cursor to chess was not the Indian game Chaturanga, but the Persian game Shatranj which the Musim expansionism brought to Europe. Shantranj was played from about the 6th century into the Middle Ages when it gradually morphed into the game we play today.

JuniorMinecraftian

Actually Shatranj was brought in around the 7th century. Thy I forgot you can only have legal moves on the board; it is not analyzing board. Try something different.

batgirl
JuniorMinecraftian wrote:

Actually Shatranj was brought in around the 7th century.

Shatranj was developed around the 6th century and moved to Europe during Muslim expansion which was a gradual movement West.  In the beginning of the 8th century, Arabs invaded the Iberian Peninsula.