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Christine Bagley-Jones wrote on Tue, Aug 9, 2005 04:16 AM UTC:
oh that is pretty sad, i didn't know it was removed.
was there a vote taken to remove it?
may the chess gods have mercy on this site lol :)
i don't understand the comment .. 'we don't know enough about
chaturanga to actually recognize it' .. isn't it the game that is
generally accepted as the mother of chess, isn't it the game that inspired
'shatranj' .. the game where the king starts on e1, and the game where
the king can move like a knight 1 time during the game etc etc ..  we can
recognize it, we just don't fully know the rules (maybe)
reading in your section 'what is a recognized variant', chaturanga looks
like one to me, i don't see anything saying that all the rules must be
known. and it is not the fault of the game that all the rules are not
known. anyway, with obviously such a huge historic ancient game, who cares if it is unclear.
Tony Quintanilla  makes a good point here with his comment, and i quote
..
'As far as 'recognized' goes, I would tend to think that both
'Chaturanga' and 'Shatranj' should be recognized, if for no other
reason that the CVP articles on these games suggest that the Indian game
migrated to Persia. Not 'recognizing' Chaturanga would seem to ignore
this root.'
anyway, i have had my say on axeing chaturanga, i will make sure i wear all
black every 4th of the 4th from now on :)

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