Four-king chess with dice is neither unrealistic nor messed up

Harald Wiese · Board Game Studies Journal 10(1) (2016)

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Peer-reviewed game-theory treatment of catur-aṅga / four-king chess and its structural link to Kauṭilya's maṇḍala theory of alliance formation. Used only for the maṇḍala-alliance analogy, not for claims of a specific Tamil origin.

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