Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.7.0.8 $; site uiucdcs Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!reddy From: reddy@uiucdcs.CS.UIUC.EDU Newsgroups: net.nlang.india Subject: Re: History of Chess in India Message-ID: <101800004@uiucdcs> Date: Fri, 4-Oct-85 14:26:00 EDT Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.101800004 Posted: Fri Oct 4 14:26:00 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 6-Oct-85 15:04:06 EDT References: <10475@ucbvax.ARPA> Lines: 7 Nf-ID: #R:ucbvax.ARPA:-1047500:uiucdcs:101800004:000:287 Nf-From: uiucdcs.CS.UIUC.EDU!reddy Oct 4 13:26:00 1985 There are references to a game called "chaturangam" in Puranas which is pretty similar to chess. I don't know whether it originated in the East or West (Far East or Near East, from the European frame of reference), but it should have been exchanged in Greek or Roman times. Uday Reddy