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Evidence for Shatera

1 pieces of evidence found.

Id DLP.Evidence.2404
Type Ethnography
Location Pallas
Date 1768-01-01 - 1769-12-31
Rules Played on an 8x8 board with pieces with specialized moves: Pawns (8): can move one space forward; Rooks (2): can move any number of spaces orthogonally; Bishops (2): can move any number of spaces diagonally; Knight (2): moves in any direction, one space orthogonally with one space forward diagonally; Queens (1): can move any number of spaces orthogonally or diagonally; Kings (1): can move one space orthogonally or diagonally. Players move three pieces on their first turn. Players capture pieces by moving onto a space occupied by an opponent's piece. When a king can be captured on the next turn, it is in check, and the king must not be in check at the beginning of the opponent's next turn. If this is not possible, it is checkmate, and the opponent wins.
Content Account of the P. S. Pallas among the Kalmyk people from his travels in 1768-1769: "Ich muß noch etwas von den Spielen der Kalmucken sagen. Zur Winterszeit ist das Schachspiel...Im Schachspiel sind viele, sonderlich Geistlichem sehr geschicht, und dieses urspünglich orientaliches Spiel ist auch in der Mongolen zu Hause. Sie folgen darinn völlig den gebräuchlichten Regeln, ausser daß sie zum Anfang mit dreyen Figuren ausrücken. Wenn wir Schach sagen, so sagen sie Schat oder Sch't und nennen das Spiel auch Schatera; Mat aber sagenb sie wie wir." Pallas 1776: 157.
Confidence 100
Ages Adult
Spaces Inside, Private, Household
Genders Male
Source Pallas, P. S. 1776. Sammlungen historischer Nachrichten über die mongolischen Völkerschaften. St. Petersburg: Kaiserliche Akademie der Wissenschaften.

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