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Shatranj. The widely played Arabian predecessor of modern chess. (8x8, Cells: 64) (Recognized!)[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
H. G. Muller wrote on Sun, Jun 1 08:22 AM UTC in reply to David Paulowich from Sat May 31 10:55 PM:

I once built EGT for Shatranj taking account of the baring rule, but my EGT generator only handles up to 5 men. There do exist 6-men DTZ ('syzygy') tables, though, which specify the quickest path to a winning conversion, which in this case should be capture of one of the black Knights. It should be possible to then look up the resulting position in a 5-men table that takes account of baring, to see if there are faster ways to win that under Shatranj rules.