Chess evolved from Chaturanga

Chess evolved from from chaturanga, before thousands of years. But, I just wanted to know what you know about this?

Me neither.

Well, you will know more about it later but now i m asking players about Chaturanga what more they know about it

I am asking India's players not other but if you know you can share here.

Chaturanga was amazingly close to modern Chess, if you compare it with its other offspring Xiangqi (Chinese Chess), Shogi (Japanese Chess) and Makruk (Thai Chess). Although it did not yet include castling, it recognized the need for it, but used a slightly different alternative: The King was allowed to move like a Knight once during the game. It seems Ouk (Cambiodian Chess) still has that rule.

What made Chaturanga special is the promotion rules: each Pawn could only promote to the piece type that started on the promotion square. (So the Pawn on the opponent's King file could not promote, to prevent getting two Kings.)

The game of chaturanga was likely invented during the time of the Gupta Empire. The name of the game essentially means "four divisions," and refers to the four major arms of the military at the time: infantry, horse cavalry, elephants, and chariots. These military divisions were represented on the game board as pieces that would eventually become pawns, knights, bishops and rooks. They were joined by a king and his general or counselor - today replaced by the queen.