makruk
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Makruk (; ; ), or Thai chess (; ; ), is a strategy board game that is descended from the 6th-century Indian game of chaturanga or a close relative thereof, and is therefore related to chess. It is part of the family of chess variants.
Key facts
- Game.italic title
- no
- Game.title
- Makruk
- Game.years
- Unknown, predates sittuyin
- Game.players
- 2
- Game.setup_time
- < 1 minute
- Game.playing_time
- From 20 mins to several hours
- Game.random_chance
- None
- Game.skills
- Strategy, tactics
- Game.AKA
- Thai chess
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
- Origin
- Pieces
- Rules
- Counting rules
- Variants
- Cambodian chess
- See also
- References
- External links
Makruk (; ; ), or Thai chess (; ; ), is a strategy board game that is descended from the 6th-century Indian game of chaturanga or a close relative thereof, and is therefore related to chess. It is part of the family of chess variants.
In Cambodia, where basically the same game is played, it is known as ouk (, ) or ouk chatrang (, ).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “makruk” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.