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A Journey to the Origin of Chaturanga (Chess)


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1 Clarion University of Pennsylvania, Clarion PA 16214, United States
2 Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi - 221001, India
     

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The game of Chess is basically a war game and is an ancient one. In those days women were not allowed to participate in warfare. Then why is the strongest piece on the chess board is a woman? In most of the world Queen; but also Wazeer (Mantri) in some other part. With some simple Mathematics, history and imagination the authors tried to give a reasonable explanation to this interesting phenomena.


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Dipendra N. Bhattacharya
Clarion University of Pennsylvania, Clarion PA 16214, United States
Sunil K. Mukherjee
Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi - 221001, India

Abstract


The game of Chess is basically a war game and is an ancient one. In those days women were not allowed to participate in warfare. Then why is the strongest piece on the chess board is a woman? In most of the world Queen; but also Wazeer (Mantri) in some other part. With some simple Mathematics, history and imagination the authors tried to give a reasonable explanation to this interesting phenomena.