Aarambam · Interactive evidence instrument
சதுரங்கம்The Board That Remembers.
A house survived as a question. The record became a board. Every move must now show its source, its cost, and the boundary it refuses to cross.
No person is a piece. No community is a side. No outcome is a prophecy.
Enter the positionThe threshold
“The board is not a battlefield. It is a memory discipline.”
Now · AarambamA local, rules-correct board with six authored studies. It stores no play history, names no adversary, and produces no political score.
Becoming · NilaiththanmaiA civic learning grammar through which preservation, consent, citation, and continuity can be practised without turning history into spectacle.
Free board · local only
Play the position
Free play · a complete two-player game. Tap a piece, then a marked square. Nothing is stored.
A full local two-player game. White to move — select a piece, then a legal destination.
The mathematics beneath the poetry
Complexity is a refusal of false certainty.
Shannon game-tree scale
An order-of-magnitude argument from 1950. It tells us exhaustive certainty is not a serious promise.
Independent-copy model
If each copy fails independently with probability p, n copies reduce total-loss probability exponentially. Independence is an assumption and must be audited.
Orrery structural radius
In the Civic Orrery, visible mass follows registered structure and citation degree — never traffic, popularity, or loyalty.
Roots bind the instrument
outcomes may override consent
record remains accountable
Three bodies · separate powers
The archive remembers. VinMin teaches. MOZI observes.
TLTE · the record
Publishes the source, status, correction path, and refusal boundary. It does not borrow authority from the game.
VinMin · the learning carrier
Turns each solved position into a quiet learning marker. No rank, reward, loyalty score, or mandate follows.
MOZI · the lens
Counts legal continuations and describes visible structure. Every interpretation remains human-reviewed.
Authored studies · inspectable record
Six questions. Six bounded readings.
- 01
மறைய மறுத்த வீடு
The House · Preserve before exchange
Interpretive analogy · expected continuation Ba4 - 02
சான்றின் பிணைப்பு
Citation · Bind claim to consequence
Interpretive analogy · expected continuation Bg5 - 03
முன்காப்பு
Refusal · Build the boundary first
Interpretive analogy · expected continuation g3 - 04
பல பாதைகள்
Redundancy · Develop another path
Mathematical fact · expected continuation Nc3 - 05
தொடர்ச்சி
Continuity · Secure the keeper
Interpretive analogy · expected continuation O-O - 06
சுற்றுப்பாதை
Orrery · Read relations, not rank
Interpretive analogy · expected continuation Nf3
Permanent refusals
The fire is contained by the rule.
- Never map a living or dead person to a piece.
- Never turn a state, community, faith, or movement into a side.
- Never produce operational guidance, targeting, prediction, or political scoring.
- Never allow MOZI to choose a move or speak beyond the published record.
- Never present fiction, metaphor, or a solved position as historical evidence.
These boundaries bind even the founder.
Source ledger
The poetry ends where verification begins.
- Tier A
FIDE Laws of Chess
The rules engine follows legal movement, check, mate, castling, promotion and draw conditions.
Open source - Tier A
Programming a Computer for Playing Chess
The game tree is a mathematical warning against certainty, not a prediction machine.
Open source - Tier A
Four-king chess with dice is neither unrealistic nor messed up
Peer-reviewed history and game theory; it does not establish a uniquely Tamil origin for chess.
Open source - Tier B
The House That Refused to Disappear
The status-ledger and preservation arithmetic that this instrument interprets without replacing.
Open source
The fictional works used in the companion research remain entertainment analogies only. They do not source this board’s historical claims or its rules.
Read the research companion