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How to Play Shatranj (شَطْرَنْج): Chess' Forgotten Ancestor
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- Опубликовано: 15 авг 2024
- (old video from discontinued channel Cognito)
This video is about Shatranj, I hope you enjoy it!
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In chess in modern Turkey we use the words:
Chess-Satranç(Sutranch)
King-Şah(Shah)
Queen-Vizier(Also advisor)
Rook-Castle(Sadly not related with chariot)
Knight-Horse(Yeah not horseman or anything, just straight up horse)
Bishop-Fil(Not with "al-" lol) (Yes, an elephant)
Pawn-Pawn
Wowowowow!!!!! :D
You use the words very similar to us in iran my friend
King:Shah(King)
Queen:Vazeer(Advisor)
Rook:Qaleh(castle)
Knight:Asb(horse)
Bishop:Fil(elephant)
Pawn:sarbaz(soldier)
Wow, your words are VERY different than mine!
King: King
Queen: Queen
Rook: Rook
Bishop: Bishop
Knight: Knight
Pawn: Pawn
This was excellent, thanks. Deserves more views.
Thanks so much!
I like what you said about elephants not encountering any other elephant. I knew the basic rules but hadn't realized that. That actually makes it impossible to just trade off elephants as we'd see a lot of with modern bishops.
Great tutorial. The sets can be expensive, but you can make your own pieces with modeling clay easily.
Openings are slower in Shatranj compared to Modern Chess, but endgames are usually faster as you can simply win by 'spoiling' (baring) the oppent's King. And also the stalemate is accounted as a win, this seems nothing but it can be very helpful for 'closing the game' faster.
In Romanian, we call these pieces:
Chess - Șah
Pawn - Pion
Knight - Cal (translates to horse)
Bishop - Nebun (translates to crazy or mad, that’s because Romanians thought bishops are crazy)
Rook - Turn (translates to tower)
Queen - Damă
King - Rege
Shahtranj was the 2nd along with Xiangqi Ancestor of Chess Game Derived from it's Father The Indian Chess Chaturunga
Chaturanga> Shahtranj> Western Chess> Modern Chess(Spread to west)
Chaturanga> Xiangqi> Jianggi> Shogi ( Spread to East)
There are also many Local Versions of Chess in Southeast Asia which are Directly Descended from Indian Chess Board but also have Chinese Chess Impact Which is 2nd Ancestor of Chess along Shahtranj.
Interestingly enough, in Spanish the Bishop is also called Alfil, just like the ancient Arab word.
Paras, just like parash (פרש) in hebrew that means horseman (the knight).
This is the best explanation I found on RUclips. Excellent video. Well done!
In Mexican Spanish the name of the pieces are:
Torre = Rook
Caballo = knight (caballo is a horse, literally lol)
Alfil = Bishop (I love the word Alfil because refers to ancient original Elephant * - * )
Reina = Queen (female piece of chess, stronger than the king (lol))
Rey = King
peón = pawn
n_n thnx ha
Some of these words are similar to the original terms used in ‘Chaturanga/chaturang’ the original chess which was exported to Persia. There, it was still referred to as ‘Chaturang’ and was introduced to the Arab world, where the pronunciation changed to ‘Shatranj’ to accommodate the absence of the ‘ch’ and solid/heavy ‘g’ sound in the Arabic language.
Back to the commonality of the names of the pieces:
King: Raja
Queen: Mantri*
*Matri is the King’s advisor; the concept of a woman on the battlefield did not yet exist in the game. In modern chess, the Indian term for queen would be Rani - this is the similarity w/ Reina I wanted to point out.
However, thus similarity actually has nothing to do with the Spanish getting chess from the Indians - it’s simply because Sanskrit & Latin have many cognates, due to a common ancestral language. I just thought it was interesting to point out :)
Another funny thing about chess, despite having developed in India, and only reaching the Arab world due to the cross-cultural exchange of the Iranian/Indian worlds, chess is now popularly known as ‘Shatranj’ in South Asia. I’m not sure sure why, but I’d wager it has to do with India’s Mughal period.
@@aer0089 Wow!! Awesome :D
@@aer0089 By the way!! please tell me why indians know the rook as an elephant .and. the bishop as a camel hahhaah weird haha
*In Spanish.
@@JCMH oww sorry hahah
My opinion on the power rankings of pieces in shatranj:
1. Rook
2. Knight
3. King
4.advisor(queen)
5. Elephant(bishop)
6. Pawns
I think I'd rate pawns much higher if they had the double move and if they could promote to something besides the advisor piece. But as they are they definitely are ever so slightly weaker than the elephant, elephants really suck though.
Elephant hahahahahahahahaah
@@Nelly.Ramirez that is what the piece is called lol
@@calebmon I know it, and I love that piece-name, for us is called "Alfil" in spanish :) refers to an ancient Elephant :D
@@Nelly.Ramirez that's cool that your language kept the original meaning intact!
@@calebmon yes :D
chess pieces in german
King - König
Queen - Dame (=lady)
Rook - Turm (=tower)
Bishop - Läufer (=runner)
Knight - Springer (=jumper)
Pawn - Bauer (=farmer)
I like your research. It is sound.
-> Al-feel means "the elephant" and interestingly enough it's called "haathi" in India-Pakistan which also means elephant.
-> Vizier means minister (but it also implies Prime Minister - The Grand Vizier of a King)
-> The Persian and Indian version of Chess has word "Shah" for Check which implies "mind your King" and Shah-Maat (meaning "the King is defeated") for Checkmate. Ever wondered where "mate" came from? ;)
-> Rukh in Persian and Urdu means "Face" or "To Face" or "Direction (N, S, E, W)" which is name of the piece which moves only straight (i.e. Rook) - moving straight is referred to as "seedhay rukh". Diagonal or oblique moves are not in a rukh.
Cheers
We call pawn "Pyadah" which is the Urdu/Persian word for infantry man or foot soldier.
Can the elephant move over pieces?
great video thankyou for your efforts
Do you have a new link to the set? This one doesn't work anymore, but I'd really love to buy this variant!
Forotten ancestor, are you joking. The real ancestor is chaturanga, the shantraj name itself derivee from it.
Don't they also sometimes play with the King and Firzan in the later to be FIDE locations (King on White right, Black left)? I think that was an intermediate change before the Queen/Bishop upgrade when it moved on into Europe.
Ah, the old middle age rules...
Awesome
Thanks!
Shatranj is a name of chess but I'm an Muslim too :D
It is fine that Shatranj died out.
Chaturanga lived on in 2 famous descendants.
Chaturanga > Shatranj > Western chess
Chaturanga > Chinese chess
Notice how much Chinese chess is closer to Chagturanga than Western chess.
It was invented in india
Advisor- 3/10. Queen- 276/1000 Elephant- 4/10
Interestingly enough, in Spanish the Bishop is also called Alfil, just like the ancient Arab word.
Diego Tovar the alfil is also used in other languages.
No. In Spanish, the bishop is "obispo".
Gary Fleming there are many versions of Spanish, so it depends on your region.
@@gabriellecrawford9856 quick question where the hell are you from because that is the weirdest Spanish I’ve ever seen unless you mistyped or something like autocorrect got you.
al-fil means "the elephant" and interestingly enough we call it "haathi" in India-Pakistan which also means elephant.