page_title: Tamerlane chess
section_title: Board
hierarchical_section_title: Tamerlane chess / Board
caption_attribution_description: English: A Tamerlane Chess Set. The pieces approximate the appearance of Tamerlane chess pieces in 14th Century Persia.
context_page_description: Tamerlane chess is a medieval chess variant. Like chess, it is derived from shatranj. It was developed in Central Asia during the reign of Emperor Timur, also called Tamerlane and its invention is also attributed to him. Because Tamerlane chess is a larger variant of chaturanga, it is also called Shatranj Kamil or Shatranj Al-Kabir, as opposed to ash-shaghir. Although the game is similar to modern chess, it is distinctive in that there are varieties of pawn, each of which promotes in its own way.
context_section_description: A Tamerlane chessboard is made up of 110 uncheckered squares arranged in a 10×11 pattern ("camp"). Additional squares, known as citadels, protrude from the left side on the ninth row and from the right side on the second row, making a total of 112 squares. When the opposing king occupies a player's citadel, the game is declared a draw. No piece other than a king may occupy a citadel. 
  There are several ways for an opening setup to be arranged. A common one is as follows:
  White's side (bottom row, from the left): elephant, (space), camel, (space), war machine, (space), war machine, (space), camel, (space), elephant.
  Second row (from the left): rook, knight, picket, giraffe, general, king, vizier, giraffe, picket, knight, rook.
  Third row (from the left): pawn of pawns, pawn of war engines, pawn of camels, pawn of elephants, pawn of general, pawn of king, pawn of vizier, pawn of giraffes, pawn of pickets, pawn of knights, pawn of rooks.
  Black's side mirrors White's.
caption: A Tamerlane chess set. The pieces approximate the appearance of Tamerlane chess pieces in 14th Century Persia.
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