thumb|Two shatranj players in a detail from a Persian miniature painting of Bayasanghori Shahname made in 1430
thumb|Two shatranj players in a detail from a Persian miniature painting of Bayasanghori Shahname made in 1430
Shatranj (, ; from Middle Persian ) is an old form of chess, as played in the Sasanian Empire. Its origins lie in the Indian game of chaturanga. Modern chess gradually developed from this game, as it was introduced to Europe by contacts in Muslim Al-Andalus (modern Spain) and in Sicily in the 10th century. In modern Persian, the term is also used as the translation of chess.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).