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How many types of pieces or icons are in Dashpaad (10x10 board)?
Dashpaad board (10x10 square blocks) have 100 squares in total. How the pieces fit in this board and what are their names.
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What is the detailed meaning of Shad Yantra in the Dashpaad board (10x10)?
Shad Yantra (pronounced as Skhad Yantra or Shad Yantra) is the 6 Principles of War according to scholars. What are all these Shadgunya principles and how significant are they in this ancient dashpada ...
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What is the earliest form of Ashtpaad (8×8) board?
An Ashtpaad board (8×8) is a smaller version of an Dashpaad board. This board was used extensively on which other variants were evolved in century.
What did an Ashtpaad board look like?
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Why are there 64 squares on a chessboard?
My question is, why not 36, 49, 81 or some other square number? Do any historical sources point to how and why chess came to be played on 64 squares in particular? Has it always been so?
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What did Benjamin Franklin mean in this quote?
I was reading thenarticle at http://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/benjamin-franklin-on-the-morals-of-chess, and in the last paragraph, Ben Franklin says "Snatch not eagerly at every advantage ...
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Where can I find Pauls' 1874 article on the n-queens problem?
Where can I find the following article, which concerns the n-queens problem?
E. Pauls, Das Maximalproblem der Damen auf dem Schachbrete, II, Deutsche Schachzeitung. Organ f¨ur das Gesammte ...
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