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Great Shatranj. Great Shatranj. (10x8, Cells: 80) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

💡📝Joe Joyce wrote on Fri, Jun 9, 2006 01:32 AM UTC:

Hey, Greg. The pieces used are all part of a 26 piece set I submitted to go
along with the 5 presets I've posted [so far] for 'Two Large Shatranj
Variants', 'Grand Shatranj Alfaerie'. The FIDE pieces are there,
represented by their customary letters, and some of the ancient chess
pieces, like the Ferz and Wazir, are in the set, represented by their
customary letters. The 'D' piece actually is a Dabbabah, but I don't
use it; instead the piece used is a D+W, which makes it a lot more
flexible. Anyway, all the other letters got used up by other pieces, and
the last piece and the last letter were the D+W and 'Y'. [As it's the
slowest and least 'forward' of all the pieces and I think of it as
looking like a sort of large robot lawnmower trundling along,  privately I
call it the 'Yardboy'. ;-) ] The 'extra' pieces are there to allow
people to easily change the preset so they can try out different pieces.
The series of games from Modern Shatranj through Atlantean Barroom were
put together to look at the effects of changing piece powers, and to be
able to do it in a systematic way.
Hope that helps. [Hope that makes sense.] Joe