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Evidence for Shatranj (Egypt)
1 pieces of evidence found.
Id DLP.Evidence.1990
Type Contemporary rule description
Location Modern Egypt
Location 38°25'7.92"N, 27° 8'18.71"E
Date 1683-01-01 - 1683-12-31
Rules 8x8 uncheckered board. Castling is done in the following sequence: the King is moved forward one square, then the Rook is moved , and the King is moved to the Rook's spot at the same time. Pawns cannot move two spaces on their first turn.
Content Account from I Campeggiamenti degli Scacchi by Francesco Pincenza: "In the city of Livorno in Tuscany there was a prisoner a Chiaus or Ambassador from the realm of Egypt who boasted that he was the first chess-player in the world. As I was urged by some of my friends, I went to play with him in the Baguo of that city...But in all this I was obliged to condescend to castle my King in the cursed African fashion, which is first to move him one square into the row of Pawns, and then another move, to move the Rook and at the self-same time to place the King on the Rook's square. In this way I continued to play, not only in this way but also with a Jew from Smyrna named Moses...The moves of the Pawn which these transmarines make are also different from ours, i.e. the Pawn cannot be played or pushed more than one square at a time." Murray 1913: 354.
Confidence 100
Ages Adult
Social status Elite
Genders Male
Source Murray, H. J. R. 1913. A History of Chess. London: Oxford University Press.
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