Game

See the game Chatrang (Sassanian) for more details.

Summary

Reconstructed with Ludii

Rules

The game Chatrang (Sassanian) is played by two players on a 8x8 rectangle board with square tiling.
Player one plays with KingnoCrosses, FerznoCrosses, Knights, Elephants, Rooks and Pawns. Player two plays with KingnoCrosses. The following pieces are shared by all players: Dies with 6 faces valued [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]. Shared plays with Dies with 6 faces valued [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6].
Rules for Pieces:
Elephants hop orthogonal.
FerznoCrosses remove pieces at to then step diagonal.
KingnoCrosses slide from the location of the piece in the orthogonal direction through [between] is in the set of empty cells or leap a piece to not is a friend or hop orthogonal or remove pieces at to then step diagonal or remove pieces at to then step diagonal or remove pieces at to then step adjacent.
Knights leap a piece to not is a friend.
Pawns step forward or remove pieces at to then step forward-right or forward-left if the to location of the last move is in the top sites of the board, a piece of the moving player the to location of the last move, this piece can promote into FerznoCross.
Rooks slide from the location of the piece in the orthogonal direction through [between] is in the set of empty cells.
Players take turns moving.
Setup:
Place a Pawn for player one at each cell of the 1 row.
Place a Rook for player one on sites: A1 and H1.
Place a Knight for player one on sites: B1 and G1.
Place a Elephant for player one on sites: C1 and F1.
Place a FerznoCross for player one on site D1.
Place a KingnoCross for player one on site E1.
Place a KingnoCross for player two on site E8..
Rules:
If 1 is the mover, roll the dice and afterwards if the number of pips owned by Player Shared is equal to 6, move one of your pieces, else if the number of pips owned by Player Shared is equal to 5, move one of your pieces, else if the number of pips owned by Player Shared is equal to 4, move one of your pieces, else if the number of pips owned by Player Shared is equal to 3, move one of your pieces, else if the number of pips owned by Player Shared is equal to 2, move one of your pieces, else move one of your pieces, else move one of your pieces.
Aim:
If 2 is the mover, KingnoCross of the next player is threatened and not can move move one of your pieces, player two wins If 1 is the mover and player two cannot move, player one wins If 1 is the mover, KingnoCross of player one is threatened and player one cannot move, player two wins.

Reconstruction Details

Combined Score: 0.85
Cultural Score: 0.8
Conceptual Score: 0.925

Geographical Score: 0.9 (~2000km)

Based on:
1. Sarvatobhadra / Sarvatobhadra 2. Sarvatobhadra / Sarvatobhadra

Concepts

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Other Rulesets

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Chatrang (Sassanian) (Ludii 1) Reconstructed with Ludii
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Chatrang (Sassanian) (Ludii 4) Reconstructed with Ludii
Chatrang (Sassanian) (Ludii 5) Reconstructed with Ludii
Chatrang (Sassanian) (Ludii 6) Reconstructed with Ludii
Chatrang (Sassanian) (Ludii 8) Reconstructed with Ludii
Chatrang (Sassanian) (Ludii 9) Reconstructed with Ludii
Chatrang (Sassanian) (Ludii 10) Reconstructed with Ludii

Identifiers

DLP.GameRulesets.4072

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