#Shatranj al-Kabir Thread (historical #Chess variant) Rewriting this thread
Thanks to Moon, we on SPC now have the ability to display chess boards using custom emojis, as follows:
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I did not, however, design these pieces for use with standard chess. I did make accomodations for standard chess: these pieces certainly can be used for standard chess. However, they were designed primarily for a medieval persian variant of shatranj (predecessor of chess) which uses a much larger 11x10 board, and which has a number of extra pieces. All of the emoji names for these pieces start with “:shatranj_”
