Modern Shatranj

Modern Shatranj is a contemporary revival of ancient Persian chess. It keeps historical features such as weak pawns and a slow counselor while updating certain rules for modern play.

Its defining setup retains the slow counselor piece from historical shatranj rather than simply using the modern queen as standard chess does. That counselor is one of the features that gives Modern Shatranj its Persian-chess character.

The weak pawns preserve an older style of pawn movement and power instead of using every modern chess pawn convention. Modern Shatranj keeps this historical limitation while updating other parts of the rules.

No. It is a contemporary revival of ancient Persian chess, built around historical weak pawns and a slow counselor piece rather than the full modern chess rule set.