The idea that chatauranga evolved from tafl, rather than tafl being loosely inspired by chess, seems pretty speculative to me. Kind of weird to skip straight f

The idea that chatauranga evolved from tafl, rather than tafl being loosely inspired by chess, seems pretty speculative to me. Kind of weird to skip straight from mancala to The Landlord's Game to the Spiel des Jahres. The games of the 19th century were generally pretty bad, from a contemporary perspective, but there was a lot of important development that led up to 20th century designs. George Parker founded his game company in the 1880s and started publishing games like Chivalry (1887) and Rook (1906) that have continued to be played since then (Camelot at least sees play despite being out of print for decades). The Landlord's Game is nice, but it's a footnote to Monopoly (1933). http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/117864/chivalry http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/117864/chivalry