He starts by talking about Shatranj as a precursor to chess, a Persian game brought to Europe through Andalusia and Sicily around the 10th century. In Shatranj, some of the player characters are ...

After 11 years, the World Chess Championships came back home to India. A sport that was invented in India - the name being either Chaturangham or Shatranj - to not have a world champion for a long ...

The Middle Easterners also came up with ‘shah-mat’ to indicate that the king’s defeat was imminent, which led to westerners ...

Directed by the legendary Satyajit Ray, Shatranj Ke Khiladi (1977) is a cinematic masterpiece that uses chess as a metaphor for political complacency during a crucial moment in Indian history.