you know, doing all this take some real strategy, it's a bit like, "Chaturanga", or catur for short, is an ancient Indian strategy game, which is commonly theorised to be the common ancestor of the boardgames, chess, shogi, sittuyin, makruk, xiangqi and janggi.
Chaturanga developed in the Gupta Empire, India around the 6th century AD. In the 7th century, it was adopted as shatranj in Sassanid Persia, which in turn was the form of chess brought to late-medieval Europe.
The exact rules of chaturanga are unknown. Chess historians suppose that the game had similar rules to those of its successor shatranj. In particular, there is uncertainty as to the moves of the Gaja, (elephant),Sanskrit caturaṅga is a bahuvrihi compound, meaning having four limbs or parts, and in epic poetry, often meaning army, The name comes from a battle formation mentioned in the Indian epic Mahabharata, referring to four divisions of an army, namely elephants, chariots, cavalry and infantry. An ancient battle formation, akshauhini, is like the setup of chaturanga.the rules of the game are very much the basis of all millitary thingoing and co ordination,The initial position is as shown. White moves first. The objective in chaturanga, the same as modern chess, is to checkmate the opponent's Raja (king).
Pieces and their moves
Chaturanga pieces
Raja (king)
Mantri or Senapati (counselor or general; ancestor of ferz; early form of queen)
Ratha (chariot; rook)
Gaja (elephant; later called fil; early form of bishop)
Ashva (horse; knight)
Padàti or Bhata (foot-soldier or infantry; pawn)Raja (king) (also spelled Rajah): moves one step in any direction (vertical, horizontal or diagonal), the same as the king in chess. There is no castling in chaturanga.
Mantri (minister or counsellor); also known as Senapati(general): moves one step diagonally in any direction, like the fers in shatranj.
Ratha (chariot) (also spelled Śakata): moves the same as a rook in chess- whereby the rook moves horizontally or vertically, through any number of unoccupied squares.
Gaja (elephant) (also spelled Gajah or Hathi): three different moves are described in ancient literature:
Two squares in any diagonal direction, jumping over the first square, as the alfil in shatranj. This is a fairy chess piece which is a (2,2)-leaper.
The same move is used for the boat in chaturaji, a four-player version of chaturangam.
The elephant in xiangqi has the same move, but without jumping.
One step forward or one step in any diagonal direction.
The same move is used for the khon (nobleman) in makruk (Thai chess) and the sin (elephant) in sittuyin(Burmese chess), as well as for the silver general in shogi.
The move was described c. 1030 by Biruni in his book India.
Two squares in any orthogonal (vertical or horizontal) direction, jumping over the first square.
A piece with such a move is called a dabbābah in some chess variants. The move was described by the Arabic chess master al-Adli c. 840 in his (partly lost) chess work. (The Arabic word dabbābah in former times meant a covered siege engine for attacking walled fortifications; today it means army tank.)
The German historian Johannes Kohtz (1843–1918) suggests, rather, that this was the earliest move of the Ratha.
Ashva (horse) (also spelled Ashwa or Asva): moves the same as a knight in chess.
Padàti or Bhata (foot-soldier or infantry) (also spelled Pedati); also known as Sainik (warrior): moves and captures the same as a pawn in chess, but without a double-step option on the first move.
Additional rules
Al-Adli mentions two further differences:
Stalemate was a win for a stalemated player. This rule appeared again in some medieval chess variations in England c. 1600. According to some sources, there was no stalemate, though this is improbable.
The player that is first to bare the opponent's king (i.e. capture all enemy pieces except the king) wins. In shatranj this is also a win, but only if the opponent cannot bare the player's king on his next turn. this single game has taught men much and According to al-Masudi's early history of India], shatranj, or chess was invented under an Indian king, who expressed his preference for this game over backgammon. The Indians, he adds, also calculated an arithmetical progression with the squares of the chessboard. The early fondness of the Indians for enormous calculations is well known to students of their mathematics, and is exemplified in the writings of the great astronomer Āryabaṭha (born 476 A.D.). An additional argument for the Indian origin of this calculation is supplied by the Arabic name for the square of the chessboard, (بيت, "beit"), house. For this has doubtless a historical connection with its Indian designation koṣṭhāgāra, store-house, granary
This exercise can be used to demonstrate how quickly exponential sequences grow, as well as to introduce exponents, zero power, capital-sigma notation and geometric series. Updated for modern times using pennies and the hypothetical question, Would you rather have a million dollars or the sum of a penny doubled every day for a month?, the formula has been used to explain compounded interest amongst other things as, standardz, hahahahahaha, :) #edio
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