Talk:Tamerlane chess

updates[edit]

I have been working to expand this article. In the near future I should have some diagrams ready showing the moves of each piece. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pfrontalis (talk • contribs) 01:51, 11 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Modernized Tamerlane chess revival looks like this. It fills in the citadel gaps with more squares, puts colourbound pieces on 2 different coloured squares and also adds a queen. It also adds pawn initial double steps and en passant. Pickets and bishops are in the same game now. In this diagram, pickets are represented by inverted bishops and alfils are represented by the musketeer chess symbol for the elephant. It also has José Raúl Capablanca's hybrid pieces.

The archbishop moves as a bishop or knight.

The chancellor moves as a rook or knight.

The bishop moves any number of free spaces diagonally. 301fieriw (talk) 15:12, 14 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Images and Rules[edit]

Anyone interested in aiding building a rules section complete with figures? TheLateDentarthurdent 20:26, 25 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Diagram[edit]

I replaced the diagram (Tamerlane chess jonadab .png) with one from my own because that one was erroneously a 11x11 diagram. Correct one for Tamerlane Chess should beCazaux (talk) 21:35, 24 December 2009 (UTC) 11x10. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cazaux (talk • contribs) 21:32, 24 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

idea: modernized tamerlane chess[edit]

Following the variants on the CV Pages, we can have:

Board expanded to 10×12, with a commoner between the king and general.
Pickets become bishops.
Giraffes become gryphons.
Instead of wazir, ferz, dabbaba, and alfil, we have WA, FD, WD, and FA.

Double sharp (talk) 15:30, 26 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Is this relevant to the article? If it's a proposal to add new content, it doesn't appear that way. ISaveNewspapers (talk) 07:51, 12 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@ISaveNewspapers: Not really. I used to be a bit more naughty about following WP:TPG. ;) The first three are variants by one Eric Greenwood listed on CVP; not sure if they have any actual notability elsewhere. Last one is something I made up and is definitely not relevant. XD Double sharp (talk) 08:11, 12 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Wild Tamerlane chess is similar to Tamerlane chess. It is played on an 11×11 board.

The elephant now moves as Alfil+Ferz.

The war engine now moves as Dabbaba+Wazir.

The hawk moves as a Griffon (one step as a ferz then outwards as a rook). 301fieriw (talk) 15:38, 15 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Caps[edit]

Either the article should be at "Tamerlane Chess" or the article should read "Tamerlane chess". Hyacinth (talk) 11:46, 18 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

And either it's raining, or it's not. --IHTS (talk) 13:25, 18 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Either one is a WikiFairy or not. Either Wikipedia should be improved or it should not. Hyacinth (talk) 21:35, 26 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

My above remark clearly imparts that your tautological statement was unhelpful and not discussion or argument. Stop making this personal, you are being an annoyance! --IHTS (talk) 01:07, 27 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Confusions with Ferz / Wazir[edit]

There is a lot of confusion on that article and its diagrams (as on 2020/08/02). For each player, the Ferz is at King's left and the Wazir at King's right. The Ferz (=General, Counsellor) is moving 1 space diagonally The Wazir (=Vizier, Governor) is moving 1 space horizontally or vertically Both text and diagrams should be corrected to be aligned with the sources. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cazaux (talk • contribs) 07:02, 2 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Citadel disambiguation page[edit]

Within Tamerlane chess are things known as "citadels". Does this warrant an appearance on Citadel (disambiguation)?

Okay. Let's get into this. In Wikipedia:Disambiguation, all the stuff I managed to comprehend basically said that disambiguation pages can only link to articles whose titles directly contain any given ambiguous name, but I've seen disambiguation pages that refer to sub-topics instead. Does that actually violate Wikipedia policy? I mean, probably not, but I'm unable to tell because it is so incredibly difficult to find what I'm looking for in that article. I would've just asked someone, but I genuinely do not know who could answer me.

I've just decided to post my thoughts here, since it means that I can just wait for someone more knowledgeable than me to help me out. ISaveNewspapers (talk) 08:32, 12 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I see that in the disambiguation page Queen, there is an entry referring to the article on Carrom. So if you were to do the analagous thing with Citadel (disambiguation) and Tamerlane chess, you wouldn't be the first. As someone largely unacquainted with chess variants, I would not say one way or another as to whether this would be a helpful thing to add to that disambiguation page. Bruce leverett (talk) 14:27, 12 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

more fairy pieces[edit]

what about implementing more fairy pieces for camel, dabbaba, fers and vizer instead of using up-side-down ones? SmartAlice (talk) 00:07, 3 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Musketeer Chess Board Painting Tools do support a lot of icons to use for the camel, dabbaba, alfil and wazir. The ferz icon used in the article looks like a queen. Musketeer Chess Board Painting Tools can be used for an alternative to the queen icon for the ferz. 301fieriw (talk) 15:15, 14 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]