Game

See the game Two-Player Chaturanga (al-Biruni) for more details.

Summary

Reconstructed with Ludii

Rules

The game Two-Player Chaturanga (al-Biruni) is played by two players on a 8x8 rectangle board with square tiling.
Regions:
Promotion: the top sites of the board for P1
Promotion: the bottom sites of the board for P2
All players play with Pawns, Rooks, KingnoCrosses, Elephants, Knights and FerznoCrosses.
Rules for Pieces:
Elephants hop orthogonal.
FerznoCrosses remove pieces at to then step diagonal.
KingnoCrosses if there is an enemy Player at to, 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 Promotion or Promotion, move again.
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 Pawn for player two at each cell of the 6 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 Rook for player two on sites: A8 and H8.
Place a Knight for player two on sites: B8 and G8.
Place a Elephant for player two on sites: C8 and F8.
Place a FerznoCross for player two on site E8.
Place a KingnoCross for player two on site D8..
Rules:
If in the same turn, a piece of the moving player the to location of the last move, this piece can promote into FerznoCross, else move one of your pieces.
Aim:
If KingnoCross of the next player is threatened and not can move move one of your pieces, the moving player wins If the moving player cannot move, the moving player wins If the number of pieces owned by Player the next player is less than or equal to 1, the next player loses.

Reconstruction Details

Combined Score: 0.994
Cultural Score: 0.993
Conceptual Score: 0.497

Geographical Score: 0.994 (~120km)

Based on:
1. Chaturanga / Manasollasa 2. Chaturanga / Manasollasa

Concepts

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Identifiers

DLP.GameRulesets.4077

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