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Chess vs Shatranj - What's the difference?

chess | shatranj |

As nouns the difference between chess and shatranj

is that chess is a board game for two players with each beginning with sixteen chess pieces moving according to fixed rules across a chessboard with the objective to checkmate the opposing king while shatranj is an ancestor of modern chess.

chess

English

(wikipedia chess)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A board game for two players with each beginning with sixteen chess pieces moving according to fixed rules across a chessboard with the objective to checkmate the opposing king.
    • Related terms
    * chessboard * chess clock * chessman * chess piece * chess set * computer chess
    See also
    (wikibooks chess) * * checkers * draughts * scacchic

    Etymology 2

    Origin uncertain; perhaps linked to Etymology 1, above, from the sense of being arranged in rows or lines.

    Noun

    (chesses)
  • A type of grass, generally considered a weed.
  • * 2007 , Michael Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road , Sceptre 2008, p. 59:
    • Hobbled, loudly gourmandizing the dry chess grass, they were guarded by a pair of dismounted soldiers in long, dusty coats [...].

    Etymology 3

    Compare (etyl) .

    Noun

    (es)
  • (military, chiefly, in the plural) One of the platforms, consisting of two or more planks dowelled together, for the flooring of a temporary military bridge.
    • (Wilhelm)
  • * Farrow
    • Each chess consists of three planks.
    (Webster 1913)

    shatranj

    English

    (wikipedia shatranj)

    Noun

    (-)
  • An ancestor of modern chess.
  • *2007 , Michael Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road , Sceptre 2008, p. 3:
  • *:Engrossed in the study of a small ivory shatranj board with pieces of ebony and horn, [...] the African held the place nearest the fire [...].