Ashtapada | Ancient Indian board game | Rules | History | Strategy

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Ashtapada is an ancient race game played on an 8x8 board. Many scholars believe that whoever invented the game of Chaturanga (the direct predecessor of modern-day chess) used the Ashtapada board as their playing surface. Bottom line: no Ashtapada, no chess—at least not the same as we play it today on an 8x8 board. Ashtapada build link: https://youtu.be/w96uPsl9B-I www.thegamingbench.com Want to support the channel? Drop me a couple bucks at https://buymeacoffee.com/thegamingbench. Thanks! PHOTO CREDITS Radha-Krishna chess CC BY-SA 3.0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darkness1089 User:Darkness1089 Buddha CC BY-SA 4.0 Krishna Kumar Shrestha https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Krishna_Kumar_Shrestha&action=edit&redlink=1 Parchisi Micha L. Rieser https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Micha Chaturanga CC BY-SA 4.0 Chaturaji https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Chaturaji&action=edit&redlink=1 Timur CC-BY-SA 3.0 IGO Khalili Collections MUSIC CREDITS Master of the Feast by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1400019 Artist: http://incompetech.com/ Brandenburg Concerto No4-1 BWV1049 - Classical Whimsical by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100303 Artist: http://incompetech.com/ REFERENCES Publications * Bell, R.C. Discovering Old Board Games, Shire Publications Ltd., 1973 * Dikshitar, V.R. Ramachandra, War in Ancient India, MacMillan and Co Limited, 1944 * Donovan, Tristan. It’s All a Game, Atlantic Books, 2017 * Franses, Michael. “Ashtapada—An Indian Silk Carpet in the Museum of Islamic Art, Doha.” Hali: Carpet, Textile and Islamic Art, Spring 2011, pp. 2-23 * Livingstone, Ian; Wallis, James. Board Games in 100 Moves, DK, 2019 * Muller, F. Max (editor), Sacred Books of the Buddhists, Oxford University Press Warehouse, 1899 * Murray, H.J.R., A History of Chess, Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1913 * Murray, H.J.R. A History of Board-Games Other Than Chess, Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1952 * Parlett, David. Parlett’s History of Board Games. Echo Point Books & Media, 2018 * Smith, Patrick J. The Complete Anachronist #78: Non-European Games. The Society for Creative Anachronism, 1995 * Tylor, Edward B., Anthropology: An Introduction to the Study of Man and Civilization, MacMillan and Co., 1889 Websites https://sharq-tank.blogspot.com/2011/07/origins-of-8-x-8-grid.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashtapada https://historified.in/2024/05/17/exploring-the-ancient-strategy-game-a-deep-dive-into-ashtapada/ https://a4gamescompany.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/ashtapada-10-2mb-pdf.pdf http://history.chess.free.fr/ashtapada.htm https://ballbits.com/how-to-play-ashtapada/ https://historified.in/2024/05/17/exploring-the-ancient-strategy-game-a-deep-dive-into-ashtapada/ https://a4gamescompany.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/ashtapada-10-2mb-pdf.pdf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hyde Videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3Yxr1wv5l4&t=348s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LSq756KLk4&t=20s Timecodes 00:00 - Intro 00:30 - Board & pieces 01:43 - Rules 05:13 - History 07:49 - Rabbit hole 12:52 - Strategy 14:06 - Wrap-up #boardgames #ancientgames, #ashtapada, #woodworking, #gaming, #history STANDARD DISCLAIMER: I am not a professional game scholar. At best, I am an enthusiastic amateur. This means my work may be incomplete, biased and, (I hope only rarely) outright wrong. I work hard to use reliable sources, double-check for accuracy, and draw reasonable conclusions. However, the scholarship surrounding ancient games is constantly growing and evolving; as a part-time game researcher and YouTube content creator, I am not always up to date on the most recent findings. If I present anything that is demonstrably incorrect, please call me out so I may increase my personal knowledge and understanding of this fascinating subject. Reach me at heygamingbench@gmail.com.