The chess they play in Russia - must-watch Sunday video!
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Hi everyone,
Do you know the chess they play in Russia?
Check this out! It's a chess video straight from the 'heart of the chess world' - the game of Ruso-Shakhmaty (Russian Chess!)
Tavreli (Russian Chess) is a two-player abstract strategy board game in the same family as Western chess, Shatranj, Japanese Shogi or Chinese Xiangqi. There was an ancient Russian Chess-like game called Tavreli but its rules have been lost over time. Today's Tavreli is a modern game that was recreated in the latest 1990s as a combination of standard Chess and Bashni (Russian Stacking Draughts).
There are three main differences between Tavreli and standard Chess:
- When a player captures an opponent's piece, the captured piece is not taken off the board. Instead of this the player puts his piece on top of the captured piece forming a stack.
- A player can move his piece to a square occupied by another player's piece. In this case the player puts the moved piece on top of the "captured" one the same way as it happens with opponent's pieces.
- A stack belongs to whoever owns its topmost piece, and moves as that piece does. However, a player is not obliged to move a stack as a whole: it is allowed to move just the top part of it leaving the bottom part on its place.
From Alexandra Kosteniuk's
www.chessblog.com
Also see her personal blog at
www.chessqueen.com
Hi everyone,
Do you know the chess they play in Russia?
Check this out! It's a chess video straight from the 'heart of the chess world' - the game of Ruso-Shakhmaty (Russian Chess!)
Tavreli (Russian Chess) is a two-player abstract strategy board game in the same family as Western chess, Shatranj, Japanese Shogi or Chinese Xiangqi. There was an ancient Russian Chess-like game called Tavreli but its rules have been lost over time. Today's Tavreli is a modern game that was recreated in the latest 1990s as a combination of standard Chess and Bashni (Russian Stacking Draughts).
There are three main differences between Tavreli and standard Chess:
- When a player captures an opponent's piece, the captured piece is not taken off the board. Instead of this the player puts his piece on top of the captured piece forming a stack.
- A player can move his piece to a square occupied by another player's piece. In this case the player puts the moved piece on top of the "captured" one the same way as it happens with opponent's pieces.
- A stack belongs to whoever owns its topmost piece, and moves as that piece does. However, a player is not obliged to move a stack as a whole: it is allowed to move just the top part of it leaving the bottom part on its place.
From Alexandra Kosteniuk's
www.chessblog.com
Also see her personal blog at
www.chessqueen.com
Labels: ruso-shakhmaty, russian chess, tavreli
posted by Chess Blog Admin @ 11:10 AM
1 Comments:
At February 12, 2012 at 12:02 PM ,
alexis cochran, nz said...
really? wow. didn't know this.!!!!!!!
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