Mongolian chess
The Mongolian Chess (Mongolian: шатар Shatar or Shitar ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ ᠰᠢᠲᠠᠷᠠ; Chinese 蒙古族象棋 , Pinyin Mengguzu xiangqi ) is a popular board game of the Mongols . It is played on an 8 × 8 board. There is also a rarer variant called Hiashatar (хиашатар), which is played on a 10 × 10 board.
characters
| image | Mongolian | traditionally | translation | Correspondence |
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ноён (noyon) |
ᠨᠣᠶᠠᠨ | duke | king
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хатан (chatan) |
ᠪᠠᠷᠰ / ᠪᠡᠷᠰᠡ бар / бэрс (bar / bers) |
Queen or tiger |
lady
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морь (mori) |
ᠮᠣᠷᠢ | horse | Jumper
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тэрэг (tereg) |
ᠲᠡᠷᠭᠡ | dare | tower
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тэмээ (temee) |
ᠲᠡᠮᠡᠭᠡ | camel | runner
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хүү (chüü) |
ᠬᠦᠦ | Boy | Farmer
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Shatar in China
Mongolian chess from the Alxa League of Inner Mongolia is on the list of the intangible cultural heritage of the People's Republic of China (792). However, the shape, rules and movements of moves are much more like international chess than Chinese xiangqi .
Picture gallery
Felt cover
characters
Game board made of felt
Noyon - kings
Web links
Commons : Shatar - collection of images, videos and audio files
- Shatar, Mongolian chess ( Youtube )
- Shatar in the game database BoardGameGeek (English)
- Interview on “Shatar” with the Mongolian cultural attaché in Berlin, Battumur Yondon , originally in: Neues Deutschland , August 30, 2008
- Shatar - Mongolian Chess entry at chessvariants.org (English)
- Mongolian Chess - Shatar (English)
Footnotes
- ↑ Mongolian Chess ( Memento from July 3, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
- ↑ The Mongolian Chess ( Memento of the original from January 1, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
