A Journey to the Origin of Chaturanga (Chess)

Abstract

The game of Chess is basically a war game and is an ancient one. In those days women were not allowed to participate in warfare. Then why is the strongest piece on the chess board is a woman? In most of the world Queen; but also Wazeer (Mantri) in some other part. With some simple Mathematics, history and imagination the authors tried to give a reasonable explanation to this interesting phenomena.