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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 5363364" data-attributes="member: 19675">Like before, you read and cite only as far as it suits your purpose, since lower down on that same page it says:It does not equate Chatrang with chess, it is but one of a family of games with common origins and similar rules.  As the oldest known member, it may be THE root game, but it is not anything like modern chess.I look a lot like my Dad- enough that I'm sometimes mistaken for him- but I'm not him.And later still:It compares it to Shatranj, a game we've already pointed out is significantly different from chess in many significant ways.  The writer of that page cannot even reliably state what its rules are- he presumes it's rules are the same because of similarity between the games' use of similar board and pieces.That is like deductive reasoning akin to knowing the cards & rules to Texas Hold 'Em, that the older game 5 Card Stud (that you don't have the rules for) is played the same.  IOW, pure supposition.</blockquote>