What a 8th Century Game would look like


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

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

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:
- 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.
- One step forward or one step in any diagonal direction.
- 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.

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.