Anyone here tried Shatranj?
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Shatranj = early form of chess thousands of years ago.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shatranj
I tried some games today with a friend, very difficult with the piece movement and re-balanced Fers (queen).
It is nice to have the bishop play more like an archer piece, diagonal-moving knight. They are an awkward piece with the shatranj rules, so I can see why that was changed over the centuries. Incidentally that change probably led to why it is considered slightly better than the knight now.
I do like the rebalanced queen, a good piece to have around the squares you want to control, but cannot dart around the board like the modern queen.