Ethiopian Chess variant

[Daniel Shawul]

All this time, i didn't know that there is a chess variant of
my own country!!!
i am too ashamed to ask if any body knows the rules of this chess variant so that i can make DanChess support this variation. And probably develope a GUI.
The only information i can find is some rought explanation by
Dr. Richard Pankhrust (famous researcher in Ethiopia).

thanks in advance
daniel

[Tord Romstad]

All this time, i didn't know that there is a chess variant of
my own country!!!
i am too ashamed to ask if any body knows the rules of this chess variant so that i can make DanChess support this variation. And probably develope a GUI.
The only information i can find is some rought explanation by
Dr. Richard Pankhrust (famous researcher in Ethiopia).

Hi Daniel,

The best place to start looking for information about chess variants is http://www.chessvariants.com. The site contains a page about Ethiopian chess, but unfortunately there is very little information. There is a link to another site with some more information, but I cannot find any complete description of the rules anywhere.

Tord

[Daniel Shawul]

Hi Tord
thanks for the link.
i didn't know there were lots of chess variants!
the ethiopian variant is senterej which in amharic mean table.
many variants are played on a weird table, using weird pieces some times even using cards.
atleast our variant has the same kind of pieces and board dimension as the standard chess.
best
daniel