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| | Shatranj - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Pawns in Shatranj moved as in chess, but they did not have the option of moving two squares on the first move. | | | During the rules of arabic caliphs, shatranj players of highest class were called aliyat or grandees. | | | In opening shatranj players usually tried to reach a specific position, tabiya. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shatranj
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| | Shatranj |
| | Differs from Shatranj in the setup and the Elephant's move. | | | If you have Zillions of Games installed on your computer, you can play this game. |
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http://www.chessvariants.com/historic.dir/shatranj.html
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| | AlShindagah Online |
| | Shatranj, as the Arabs called it, or what in the West became popular as the game of chess, once found in early Arab culture a springboard for its development and popularity to become the most highly recognized board game of today. | | | So involved was Al-Adli with shatranj that he also found additional uses for the square pattern on the board besides purely playing on it. | | | After shatranj was embraced by the Arab culture following the Muslim conquest of Persia, there might have been some peculiar changes in the physical outlook of the game. |
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http://www.alshindagah.com/marapr2002/chess.html
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| | ICC Help: Shatranj |
| | The variant Shatranj reflects the way chess was played before the game took its final form we know today around 1500 A.D. For details on the historic development, see help Shatranj2. | | | This is wild 28, so to start a game of Shatranj with someone, you would do "match someone 10 10 w28" or seek a game as with "seek 10 10 w28". | | | In this last case (bare king), however, your opponent is allowed to make one more move and if he can take your last non-king piece as well, the game is draw. |
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http://www.chessclub.com/help/Shatranj
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| | Chesmayne - Chess Dictionary |
| | Set-up the Shatranj board and play through the moves shown above and then continue this game. | | | Set-up the Shatranj board and play through the moves shown above and then continue the game. | | | 08 :A may commence a game of Shatranj on rank-1 and rank-2 or on rank-7 and rank-8. |
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http://chess-dictionary-chesmayne.net/Shatranj.htm
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| | Zillions of Games Discussion Forum |
| | Shatranj games were rarely recorded when the game was widely-played, because the slow opening was viewed casually. | | | Zillions of Games Discussion Forum: Comments/Suggestions For Existing Games: Shatranj | | | Does anyone know of a data base of Shatranj games? |
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http://www.zillions-of-games.com/discus/messages/102/147.html
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| | SchemingMind.com - Online Correspondence Chess Club. Play free online chess and chess variants |
| | You can play Shatranj by correspondence here on SchemingMind.com, with the option of using an unchecked board and elephant-shaped Fils; also the easy rules of the game. | | | It is easy to see the similarities between Shatranj in its period of prosperity, and modern chess, and this goes beyond the pieces used and the movements, for as today, it involved an entire culture dedicated to the game in the Arab world. | | | But for knowing that for sure it would be necessary the congregation of many players interested in the game, and also a good amount of time to again reach some understanding of the subtleties and possibilities of the game, as the ancient Aliyats once did. |
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http://www.schemingmind.com/journalarticle.aspx?article_id=3&page=1
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| | The Chess Page |
| | The moves changed little in the ensuing centuries, and a text on the game of chess written in 1474 described a game essentialy identical to Shatranj. | | | The rules of the game, the setup, and the moves of the pieces resemble those of modern chess, but without the scope granted to the equivalent of the bishop (elephant) and queen (prime minister). | | | Byzantine Chess, or Circular Chess, was an odd variant played on a circular board having 64 squares and 4 citadels. |
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http://www.stmoroky.com/games/chess/chess.htm
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| | ChessBase Puzzles |
| | The rules of Shatranj were very similar to those modern chess. | | | The game was played on a board with 64 dark and light squares, with pieces that we would find quite familiar. | | | In manuscripts from the early 7th century a game called “Chaturanga&; (which later changed to “Shatranj”) is suddenly mentioned, a precursor of chess as we know it today. |
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http://www.chessbase.com/puzzle/puzz01a.htm
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| | Chess - Online Guide |
| | The other main changes between Chaturanga and the 2 player form of Chess, Shatranj, are the two Rajahs were demoted to Prime Ministers in the change to the two player form and their movement reduced making them much weaker while the moves of the Elephant and the Ship were swapped around. | | | As time progressed a variety of exotic variations came about in forms such as Circular Chess and The Courier Game which was a kind of extended Chess played on a board of 12 x 8 chequered squares. | | | The pieces are simple disks with Chinese characters on them to differentiate and are played on the points of the board rather than within the squares. |
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http://www.tradgames.org.uk/games/Chess.htm
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| | Shatranj - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Pawns in Shatranj did not have the option of moving two squares on the first move. | | | Capturing all one's opponent's pieces apart from the king (baring the king) was a win, unless your opponent could capture your last piece on their next move, when it is a draw. | | | Shatranj or shatranji, also called medieval chess, is an ancient Persian game from which modern chess developed, and which is thought by some scholars to be the common ancestor of chess, Xiangqi, Shogi, Janggi and Makruk. |
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http://www.americancanyon.us/project/wikipedia/index.php/Chatrang
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| | The Black Genesis of Chess at OnePeoples.com |
| | Shatranj was derived from Chaturanga, a board game originating in India in the 6th century which featured only four types of pieces: elephants, chariots, calvary, and infantry. | | | It is befitting that chess was a favorite Moorish pastime as many enjoyed the challenge of warfare strategy and tactics, and perhaps many were strong players. | | | The Moors also brought another fame to Spain called el-Quirkat, a direct ancestor to checkers. |
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http://onepeoples.com/current/blackgenesis.htm
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| | Ancient India - Sports & Games |
| | One such instance is in the Mahabharata when Pandavas and Kauravas play this game. | | | That the source of the European game is Arabic is clear enough, nor merely from the words "check" and "mate", which are evidently from Shah mat ("the king is dead"), but also from the names of some of the pieces". | | | Chess originated in ancient India and was known as Chatur-Anga - Meaning 4 bodied, as it was played by 4 players. |
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http://www.crystalinks.com/indiasports.html
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| | The rules are the same as for Shatranj. | | | Ways of shortening game - a given number of captures, take a given total value of men, or take a given number of men with a given value wins. | | | Mating on special squares or with specific pieces was important. |
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http://www.tirbriste.org/dmir/Games/1202.html
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| | Xiangqi |
| | The queen (or guard) moves one square diagonally (as in Shatranj). | | | The bishop (or elephant or minister) moves exactly two squares diagonally (as in Shatranj), but cannot jump. | | | Xiangqi may be the most popular board game on Planet Three. |
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http://www.crockford.com/chess/xiangqi.html
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| | Shatranj |
| | If you had a Java-capable browser, you could play Shatranj, the early Arabian chess game, here. |
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http://www.pathguy.com/chess/Shatranj.htm
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| | The Tribune - Windows - Roots |
| | For example,it is thought that chess or shatranj as a game originated in Persia. | | | But on tracing the roots of the word shatranj it emerged that the game was born in India during Lord Budhha's time. | | | Etymology or the study of word origins often helps to clarify certain misconceptions. |
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http://www.tribuneindia.com/2001/20010512/windows/roots.htm
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| | txt_chess_players |
| | Another work which belongs in this latter group is the Hindi story "Shatranj ke khilari" (The Chess Players), first published in 1924. | | | Some time in the next few years, but before 1928, Premchand published an Urdu version of the same story called "Shatranj ki bazi" (The Chess Game) in a volume of stories entitled Khvab o khiyal (Dreams and Visions). | | | Indians must learn from it so that it will never be repeated. |
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http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00fwp/published/txt_chess_players.html
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| | Moviefone: Shatranj Ke Khiladi Movie |
| | Shatranj Ke Khiladi (1977) About two men engrossed in a game of chess as disater... | | | Shatranj Ke Khiladi (The Chess Players) - Satyajit Ray Film and... | | | Discuss this movie with other users on IMDb message board for Shatranj Ke Khilari... |
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http://movies.aol.com/movie/main.adp?mid=16984
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| | Look Up (Finger) Player Onulet |
| | We are hoping that more players will begin to play this wondeful game. | | | www.chessvariants.com/historic.dir/shatranj.html http://home.cwru.edu/cwrums/games/shatranj.html http://play.chessvariants.com/pbm/presets/shatranj.html 7: I offer free Shatranj lessons for new players...... | | | Many thanks to Kiebitz for providing these files, as well as the Shatranj playing computer, Elephant !! |
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http://www.chessclub.com/finger/Onulet
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| | Chatrang - Chaturanga - Shatranj |
| | n reaching Arabia the name of the game was modified yet again to Shatranj when Islamic players dominated the game. | | | Chatrang was the name the Persians used for the game when they modified the rules during the 7th century. | | | The various levels of Chess that arose were supreme achievements in their time. |
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http://www.chess-poster.com/english/chesmayne/chatrang_chaturanga_shatranj.htm
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| | The Online Guide to Traditional Games - History and Useful Information |
| | Japanese name for Wei Qi, an abstract aesthetic oriental game in which the aim is to surround territory. | | | Reportedly, another name for the pub dice game, Shut the Box | | | Frence name for Tennis also known as Real Tennis or Royal Tennis |
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http://www.tradgames.org.uk/features/games-index.htm
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| | Bobby James Kuechenmeister-Basic Chess [Intro] |
| | Chaturanga, like chess, was played with pieces having different powers and games were won by either eliminating all of the opponent's pieces or setting up a potential capture of the opponent's king. | | | There are two other possible outcomes in the game called stalemate and draw. | | | After 700 AD, the game evolved into shatranj, and into Chinese Chess before becoming modern chess. |
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http://kuechebj.bravehost.com/Basic_Chess/chessintroduction.htm
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| | Chatrang |
| | It is supposed that the rules were unchanged from Chatrang to Shatranj. | | | Arabic writers were the first to give the complete rules of their Shatranj. | | | Pieces from the Afrasiab set (Uzbekistan, estimated 761 AD) |
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http://history.chess.free.fr/chatrang.htm
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| | Problems |
| | Regarding the back row of pieces, the King, the Rook and the Knight move in the same way as their modern counterparts, while the Elephant (later becoming a Bishop) jumped two squares diagonally, and the General (later becoming the Queen) moved one square diagonally. | | | In Arab countries from the sixth Century, a variation of Chaturanga, called Shatranj was played. | | | It is from Shatranj that, we believe, is found the origin of the Chess Problem. |
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http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Projects/MacQuarrie/Chapters/Ch2.html
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| | Brains in Bahrain |
| | However, after spreading the game to Europe via Spain the Arab empire retreated and so did Shatranj leaving the Europeans to develop the game of chess. | | | Now the Bahrainis want to play catch up and they have the enthusiasm and the resources to do it. | | | In the ninth and tenth century your ancient TWIS (The Week in Shatranj) reporter would have been regularly in the Arab world watching the great Shatranj players of the day playing in the court of the Caliphs of the Arab empire. |
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http://www.chesscenter.com/twic/event/brainb02/opening.html
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| | No-parking from Shatranj to Coffee Day |
| | The traffic signs start from Shatranj and go down all the way to Cafe Coffee Day on the road leading to Carter Road. | | | Says Priti Mehrotra from the Second Cross Carter Road ALM, “The eatery owners have been very co-operative in the meetings. | | | Those used to stopping for a quick bite or being served in their cars at eateries like Crepe Station and Kareems, just off Carter Road, will now have to forgo the privilege, as no-parking signs now line the entire stretch up to Shatranj. |
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http://web.mid-day.com/metro/bandra/2005/june/110802.htm
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| | Introduction to Europe (from chess) -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | The oldest recorded game, found in a 10th-century manuscript, was played between a Baghdad historian, believed to be a favourite of three successive caliphs, and a pupil. | | | A form of chaturanga or shatranj made its way to Europe by way of Persia, the Byzantine Empire, and, perhaps most important of all, the expanding Arabian empire. |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-80430?tocId=80430
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| | About Grand Chess |
| | Some five hundred years ago there lived this renaissance guy, bent on looking at things in a new light, as was the fashion, and being a Shatranj player, he looked a lot at Shatranj. | | | Suddenly it hit him: the bishops were crippled. |
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http://www.mindsports.net/Arena/GrandChess/AboutGrandChess.html
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| | Chess as an exemplary game |
| | Shatranj did not have any player designated as the Queen. | | | Shatranj was almost identical to the original Indian game of Chaturanga. | | | The game quickly spread to many Islamic lands |
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http://www.maxwell.syr.edu/maxpages/faculty/jbennett/651S03/chess.html
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| | Chess History - ChessBaron Chess |
| | Around 800 Chatrang-namak (Matigan-i-chatrang) was written in Pahlavi about the history of chatrang and the introduction of the game into Persia during the time of Khusraw I, who ruled from 531 to 578, giving increasing clarity to the history of chess. | | | Gaining momentum with chess origin - an Arabic book of Shatranj problems was written by ar-Razi, called Latif fi-sh shatranj (Elegance in Chess), written around 845. | | | The first possible reference to Chatrang (later becoming shatranj), the Persian word for chess, was The Karnamak-i-Artakhshatr-i-Papakan (The Records of Ardashir, son of Papak). |
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http://www.chessbaron.co.uk/history.htm
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| | Chess |
| | The origins of chaturanga are unknown, but it is possible that it came from an older Chinese game. | | | Chaturanga later developed into the Islamic game, shatranj, which is closer related to modern chess. | | | Shatranj was also exported to Russia through trade routes. |
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http://faculty.smu.edu/bwheeler/Ency/chess.html
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| | Chinese Chess |
| | Called shatranj, it was played on a board identical to that used in modern Western chess, and with the same configuration of pieces, although some of the moves were more limited. | | | The only thing known for certain is that an early form of the game was known in Persia by the seventh century. | | | Chess spread westward through the Islamic world until it arrived in Europe in the Middle Ages. |
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http://home1.gte.net/res1bup4/chess_intro.htm
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| | SiegeNetwork.com Forums -> MageWorld FAQ |
| | This means that the world layout and characters will be familiar to Chess players, but actual gameplay is still an intensely story based RPG with no knowledge of the game Chess required. | | | It has an all new combat system, all new skills and leveling system, all new magic system, etc. The game layout is based very loosely on Chess (or more accurately Shatranj, a precursor to chess). | | | The basis of the world is that Shatranj, also known as the Warlands, was created by the Wizard-Kings to have a war on. |
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http://www.siegenetwork.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=8577
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| | SiegeNetwork.com Forums -> The Saga Of My Little Pony |
| | So when you say that a familiarity with a chess board will help does that insinuate (sp?) that the map will be 64 large rectangular islands connected by those flying boats? | | | For those who are worried that a familiarity with Chess (or Shatranj, which is what it's really based on) will be required, the answer is "no." It's an RPG, not a chess game, and no familiarity with chess is required whatsoever. | | | In Shatranj, the queens were replaced by generals, and the bishops replaced by elephants =P |
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http://www.siegenetwork.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=3369&st=2730&
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| | Introducing Knight's Tours |
| | Note that one asymmetric closed tour of N moves gives rise to N different reentrant tours, by deleting each of the N moves in turn, so the distinction is advisable to avoid confusion when counting tours.) | | | In Shatranj the piece next to the king was a ferzan (in later mediaeval chess termed fers) which moved only one step diagonally, and the positions next to the king and queen were occupied by pieces called fil (later termed alfil) which moved two steps diagonally. | | | The tour is given in two diagrams in a manuscript scribed c.1350 by Abu Zakariya Yahya ben Ibrahim al-Hakim, with the title Nuzhat al-arbab al-'aqulfi'sh-shatranj al-manqul {The delight of the intelligent, a description of chess}. |
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http://homepages.stayfree.co.uk/gpj/ktn.htm
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| | Shatranj Napoli Restaurant Review Mumbai Frommers.com |
| | Owned by Ashok Datwani, one of Mumbai's major young players, Shatranj is done up in chic 1970s retro style, with large statues and a leather-and-steel look. | | | It serves Indian and Italian -- though the Italian is really Indo-Italian and you'll probably find chilies in your pasta sauce. | | | Home > Destinations > Asia > India > Mumbai > Restaurants > Shatranj Napoli |
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http://www.frommers.com/destinations/mumbai/D31844.html
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| | History of Chess |
| | 0946 As-Suli died at Basra; strongest Shatranj player in Baghdad. | | | 0651 Arabic conquest of Persia completed; Shatranj popularized. | | | 0638 Islamic conquest of Persia, changes Chatrang to Shatranj. |
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http://www.unc.edu/~yoonmik/hppa_85/technical_projects/history_of_chess.html
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| | Ancient: Two-handed Chaturanga, Four-handed Chaturanga, Shatranj, Oblong Chess, Round Chess, Shatranj Kamil (two variations), Shatranj Al-Husun, Timur's Chess, Shatranj Al-Kabir, Grande Acedrex, Acedrex de Los Quatros Tiempos, Courier Chess, Turkish Great Chess (four variations), Shatranj Diwana Shah. |
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http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/cgt/bib.html
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| | Read Reviews on Shatranj Napoli - MouthShut.com |
| | Shatranj Ka Khel ya Napoli ka bhel By surajb | | | Shatranj a very nice place, but as one can say that not all the ingredients for the nightngale. | | | I mean the ambience is too hyped up, it looks so good but the seatings are not too comfortable. |
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http://www.mouthshut.com/product-reviews/Shatranj_Napoli-925036192.html
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| | The bump-and-grind on a Saturday night |
| | Both Shatranj and Olive have security guards who patrol the areas where the cars are usually parked, so there is no question of the cars not being secure. | | | And while it may take you up to an hour to get a table at one of these restaurants, rest assured that finding a spot for your car can also be a long wait for the valet parking it. | | | For those of you who make tracks to Olive, Out of the Blue or Shatranj Napoli on a Saturday night, the snaking line of cars bumper-to-bumper slithering up to these nightspots are probably a common sight. |
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http://web.mid-day.com/metro/bandra/2005/july/112833.htm
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| | Revisiting 1857: Satyajit Ray's vision |
| | Shatranj Ke Khilari brilliantly depicts the increasing apathy of the Indian upper class, showing how even seemingly harmless passion can become all-encompassing obsession, and banalities of the daily games overpower life itself. | | | While not among the master filmmaker's finest, Shatranj Ke Khilari indeed showed Hindi cinema what the director could do when stepping across the language line. | | | I feel Shatranj ke khiladi (SKK) is one of Satyajit Ray's most overrated films and also his weakest. |
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http://inhome.rediff.com/movies/2005/aug/23shat.htm
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| | The End of the Draw Offer? (GM Maurice Ashley) |
| | I could find nothing in my standard sources, so I did some quick original research in my old books, and found the following: In Medieval chess (Shatranj) the draw was recognized, but apparently only in simplified endgames in which it was clearly impossible for either side to force a win. | | | Even until the 18th century, there seems to have been no draws by agreement other than in very simplified endgames. | | | There is no apparent reference to draws earlier than the late stages of the endgame in Shatranj literature. |
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http://www.thechessdrum.net/65thSquare/65_DrawOffer2.html
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| | Chapter SABAIO <i>to</i> SAGO of S by The Hobson Jobson Dictionary |
| | The curious explanation of Shatranj or ‘chess,& thousand troubles,’ is no doubt some popular etymology; such as P. sad-ranj, ‘a hundred griefs.’ The word is really of Sanskrit origin, from Chaturangam, literally, ‘quadripartite’; the four constituent parts of an army, viz. |
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http://www.bibliomania.com/2/3/260/1286/20203/2.html
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| | tribuneindia... Himachal |
| | He said "Shatranj" was a division-level wargame which would help carry out a battle exercise in a room which otherwise would have taken at least two months and involve about 1 lakh troops and 1,000 tanks in field situation. | | | SHIMLA, Sept 30 — "Shatranj", the latest computer software developed by the Army Training Command, the thinktank of the Army, will put the country on a par with advanced countries like the USA in simulated warfare technology. | | | SHIMLA, Sept 30 — "Shatranj", the latest computer software developed by the Army Training Command (ARTRAC), the thinktank of the Army, will put the country on a par with advanced countries like the USA in simulated warfare technology. |
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http://www.tribuneindia.com/1998/98oct01/himachal.htm
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| | Indiaclub.com Search Results - ProductID: 2109 |
| | Shatranj ke Khilari and other stories- A Set of 3 Volumes (HINDI) | | | Buy Together: Shatranj ke Khilari and other stories- A Set of 3 Volumes (HINDI) ($6.00) and Meri Priya Kahaniyan (HINDI) ($6.00) |
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| | Shatranj |
| | The brought Shatranj to the level of science, publishing several treatise of problems (mansubat) and openings (ta'biyat). | | | The Arabs learned Chatrang that became Shatranj after a phonetic evolution from Persian to Arabic. |
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http://history.chess.free.fr/shatranj.htm
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