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Evidence for Shataranja
1 pieces of evidence found.
Id DLP.Evidence.2238
Type Contemporary rule description
Location 19°51'38.91"N, 75°20'35.95"E
Date 1871-01-01 - 1871-12-31
Rules 10x10 board.Pieces move as follows: Raja (x1): moves one space in any direction; Crown Prince (placed to the left of the Raja, x1): moves like any of the other pieces; Kotwal (Police Chief, placed to the right of the Raja, x1): Moves like the Elephant and the Vaha; Mantri (x1): moves any distance orthogonally or diagonally; Elephant (x2): moves diagonally any distance; Vaha (two placed in front of the Queens, x4): move orthogonally one space and then diagonally another, jumping over any intervening pieces; Chariot (x2): moves orthogonally any distance; Queen (placed in front of the Raja and Crown Prince, x2): move one square orthogonally or diagonally; Padati (placed in the second row, except for the central two squares, x8): move forward orthogonally one space or one space diagonally forward to capture. When a Padati reaches the opposite edge of the board, it is promoted to a Mantri and is moved immediately to the space it last moved from. An opponent's piece is captured by moving one of the player's own pieces onto the space occupied by the opponent's piece. If the Raja can be captured on the opponent's next turn, it is in check. The Raja cannot be in check at the end of the player's turn. If this is impossible, the opponent wins. When a player is reduced to only their Raja and Padati, the opponent wins. In the case of a stalemate, the player in stalemate may remove any of the opponent's pieces (except their Raja).
Content "Now a fourth method of the game (in a ten-square board) is being mentioned. Now i am explaining a fourth variety of this chess game. It is also called Shataranja and it has a board of 100 squares. Here only the variations in the names, positions, and movements of the pieces (from those in the ordinary eight-square board) are being mentioned. Acfter arranging the two sides separately as before, to the right of the king comes a kotwala (police chief) and to his right an elephant (in place of camel): a horse and chariot (in place of elephant); to the left of the king, the crown prince, minister, elephant, horse, and chariot. In front of the king and the crown prince stand their Begams (queens) and in front of them two horses. The eight foot-soldiers stand on either side of the two queens in line with them. (Now the movements of the extra pieces are being described). The movements of the King, minister, elephant, horse, and chariot are the same as those i the 8-square board. Note that here the elephant and chariot have been substituted here in place of the camel and elephant. The two queens move just like the King. The kotwal has the movements of both the elephant (camel) and the horse; and the crown prince has the movements of all the powers." Iyer 1982: 48-50.
Confidence 100
Ages Adult
Genders Male
Source Iyer, S. 1982. Indian Chess as Embodied in the Kridakausalyam of Pt. Harikrishna Sharma Jyotishacharya. Delhi: Nag Publishers.
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