The translation of the text (by Sonja Musser) is given below: The book of games of Alfonso X the wise (1283) describes a special chess variant which was invented by some maidens in Marocco. The 'forced' chess or 'maidens game' variant Note that chess during medieval times was usually played for a stake. Finally, if neither side has enough power on the board to win by checkmate, stalemate or bare king, the game is drawn. Also, if one side is reduced to a king alone with no other men, he loses as a 'bare king', unless the other player is reduced to a bare king on the very next move, in which case the game is a draw. Even if the King is not in immediate threat, but any possible move would subject him to capture (stalemate), he has lost the game. If there is no possible move to relieve the king of the threat, he is 'checkmate' and has lost the game is over. If a player’s King is threatened with capture, 'check' is declared, and the player must move so that his King is no longer threatened. All others capture just as they move normally. Only the pawn has a special move for capturing. All pieces capture by landing on the square of an opposing piece, thereby removing that piece from the board. Players take alternate turns to move one game piece. Image scanįrom the book 'Medieval castles of Spain' by L. King's room at the Alhambra, Granada, Spain. in Italy, England, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden), count (in Germany) and fool (mainly in France). The game piece elephant was also known under other names, like bishop (in many countries), sage or wise man (e.g. The most important changes involved the movement of the queen (ferz/counsellor), the movement of the pawns, the movement of the king, and the movement of the elephant (alfil). This eventually culminated into the chess as we know it today. One of the proposed improvements by Alfonso the Wise (1283) is the use of dice to speed up the game. During the medieval period many variations, often local, were tried out in order to improve the playability of chess. Murray in A history of chess the opening game of Shatranj was too slow for the medieval European taste.
the Muslim/Indian variant for playing chess, also known as Chatranj. But most of these guides only concern the starting point, i.e.
THE SIX POWER MOVES OF CHESS HOW TO
There has much been said on medieval chess and good guides on how to play medieval chess can be found on internet, for instance at the Chess variants web-page.
This is the second part of the story and concerning playing medieval chess. The first part concerned the medieval chess board.
My planned post on medieval chess became much too long, reason why I chopped it into three parts.
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