Maldivian Chess (Raazuvaa)

Georgi Markov

doi:10.2478/bgs-2023-0003

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Maldivian Chess (Raazuvaa)

Board Game Studies Journal

Volume 17 (2023): Issue 1 (October 2023)

By: Georgi Markov

Open Access

|Oct 2023

Abstract

Traditional Maldivian chess rules are presented and their similarity to pre-19th century Turkish chess is discussed, with musings on the potential role of Ottomans in spreading the “new game” invented in Europe – but played in their own manner – throughout the Muslim world and beyond.

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