![]() ![]() All pieces capture by landing on the square of an opposing piece, thereby removing that piece from the board. Players take alternate turns to move one game piece. Image scanįrom the book 'Medieval castles of Spain' by L. King's room at the Alhambra, Granada, Spain. in Italy, England, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden), count (in Germany) and fool (mainly in France). The game piece elephant was also known under other names, like bishop (in many countries), sage or wise man (e.g. The most important changes involved the movement of the queen (ferz/counsellor), the movement of the pawns, the movement of the king, and the movement of the elephant (alfil). This eventually culminated into the chess as we know it today. One of the proposed improvements by Alfonso the Wise (1283) is the use of dice to speed up the game. During the medieval period many variations, often local, were tried out in order to improve the playability of chess. Murray in A history of chess the opening game of Shatranj was too slow for the medieval European taste. the Muslim/Indian variant for playing chess, also known as Chatranj. But most of these guides only concern the starting point, i.e. There has much been said on medieval chess and good guides on how to play medieval chess can be found on internet, for instance at the Chess variants web-page. This is the second part of the story and concerning playing medieval chess. The first part concerned the medieval chess board. My planned post on medieval chess became much too long, reason why I chopped it into three parts. ![]()
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