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 16x4 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 KingnoCrosses, Queens, Elephants, Knights, Rooks and Pawns. The following pieces are shared by all players: Dies with 6 faces valued [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6].
Rules for Pieces:
Elephants hop 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, a piece of the moving player the to location of the last move, this piece can promote into Queen.
Queens remove pieces at to then step diagonal.
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 Rook for player one at sites [4,5].
Place a Rook for player two at sites [13,12].
Place a Knight for player one at sites [20,21].
Place a Knight for player two at sites [29,28].
Place a Elephant for player one at sites [36,37].
Place a Elephant for player two at sites [45,44].
Place a Pawn for player one at sites [3,19,35,51].
Place a Pawn for player one at sites [54,38,22,6].
Place a Pawn for player two at sites [11,27,43,59].
Place a Pawn for player two at sites [14,30,46,62]..
Rules:
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 KingnoCross of the moving player is in is in sites [64,65,66,67], it's a draw.

Reconstruction Details

Combined Score: 0.89
Cultural Score: 0.884
Conceptual Score: 0.441

Geographical Score: 0.896 (~2080km)

Based on:
1. Shatranj al-Mustatila / Shatranj al-Mustatila 2. Shatranj ar-Rumiya / Al-Amuli

Concepts

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Identifiers

DLP.GameRulesets.4083

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