An early version of this game in India was called Chaturanga & used elephants, horses, chariots & foot soldiers
[DOC] [TLE] Chaturanga - Wikipedia [PAR] Chaturanga (Sanskrit: ; caturaga), or catur for short, is an ancient 
Indian strategy game which is the ... An early reference to an ancient Indian 
board game is sometimes attributed to ... Gaja (elephant; later called fil; early 
form of bishop) ... Padti or Bhata (foot-soldier or infantry) (also spelled Pedati); 
also known as... [DOC] [TLE] Sports and Games in Ancient India - Crystalinks [PAR] The famous epic Mahabharata narrates an incidence where a game called ... 
with 8 sets, we find that even earlier, in Indian (Hindu) courts we have packs with 
8, ... Indian Dictionary - S.B.)