Chess vs Shogi vs Xiangqi: Three Paths from Chaturanga

Three of the world s most-played strategic board games — chess, shogi, and xiangqi — share a single common ancestor: the Indian game of Chaturanga, played around 600 CE. From that root, the game travelled west through Persia and the Islamic world to become modern chess, east into China to become xiangqi, and from China to [ ] The post Chess vs Shogi vs Xiangqi: Three Paths from Chaturanga appeared…