. Chess and playing cards. * £>#. ? $3?<£ * £> $ 71 * & any other piece. He might, if expedient, be captured by his partnersmen, who thus placed himself iu command of both armies. The name of the game, Chaturanga or four angas, is that of thefour angas or members of an army, a term which is applied to realarmies by the epic poets of The relation of the game of Chaturanga to the game of Pachisi isvery evident. The board is the square of the arm of the Pachisi cross,and even the castles of the latter appear to be perpetuated in thecamps, similarly marked with diagonals, on the C
. Chess and playing cards. * £>#. ? $3?<£ * £> $ 71 * & any other piece. He might, if expedient, be captured by his partnersmen, who thus placed himself iu command of both armies. The name of the game, Chaturanga or four angas, is that of thefour angas or members of an army, a term which is applied to realarmies by the epic poets of The relation of the game of Chaturanga to the game of Pachisi isvery evident. The board is the square of the arm of the Pachisi cross,and even the castles of the latter appear to be perpetuated in thecamps, similarly marked with diagonals, on the Chinese chessboard(No. 51).2 The arrangement of the men at the corners of the boardsurvives in the Burmese game of Chess (So. 46). The four-sided die issimilar to that used in Chausar (No. 40). The pieces or men are of thesame colors as in Pachisi, and consist of the four sets of men or pawns of the Pachisi game, with the additionof the four distinctive chess pieces, theorigin and significance of which rema
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