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Great chess or Large chess is a family of large board historical chess variants which were played in the Middle East and Central Asia. Great chess includes variants played on larger chessboards like T
12th century Iranian shatranj set from Nishapur
Left to right: the faras (knight), zurafa (giraffe), pil (elephant), and tali'a (picket)
Timur The Conqueror, the eponym of the game
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Timur, also known as Tamerlane, was a Turco-Mongol conqueror, first ruler of the Timurid dynasty, and the founder of the Timurid Empire, which ruled over modern-day Afghanistan, Iran, and Central Asia
Great chess
…are derived from medieval shatranj. One variant of great chess, also called Tamerlane chess, was developed in Central Asia during the reign of Emperor Timur, and its invention is also attributed to him. Although the game is similar to modern chess, it is distinctive in that there are varieties of pawn, each…
Original location of Timur's Mongol Barlas tribe
Earliest known portrait of Timur, commissioned right after his death in 1405–1409, by his grandson Khalil Sultan for an illustrated Timurid genealogy (TSMK, H2152).
Timur on horse in a battle with Tokhtamysh, Khan of the Golden Horde. 1420–1440 manuscript (partially colored), possibly Herat. Topkapi H.2153