(Fwd) Chess game

[Vidhyanath Rao]

On Thu, 16 Dec 1999 17:48:42 +0100, Stefan Baums <sb51 at SOAS.AC.UK> wrote:

>
>Wasn't it the other way around (elephant -> castle, chariot ->
>bishop)?

This is alledged sometimes, and one can find chess sets in which the rook
is shaped like an elephant, but in caturanga, it was a chariot.

The serious histories of chess I have read that caturanga elephant ->
bishop. The lines indicating the tusks were reinterpreted as a bishop's
miter in Europe, hence the name.