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Honeyn EL-HAMIANI wrote on Tue, Nov 22, 2016 03:14 PM UTC:

After Indian chaturanga, Chess was deeply changed in Persian and Arab world. I do not see any mention about that game which rules are very close to the one we all know. In Spain, Arabs -where remained 8 centuries, the new rules were set !. It has been added:

- pawns first move can "jump" two cells,

- the 2 Rocks,

- and the prise-en-passant.

The Arab/Persian chess is called Old Chess.

Also, there is a variant game famous in Ethiopia, a very old country of Chess called Senterej (see wikipedia).

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