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Silk Road Strategic Antiquities
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
  • 2. Strategy encoded as letters, referencing historic notation systems
  • 3. Chinese board of war, its ‘elephant’ jumps distinguish it
  • 4. Roman soldier’s strategy game hinting at tactical encirclement
  • 5. Arabian chess forerunner with a king, vizier, and elephants
  • 7. Scandinavian-famed game variant, northern cousin on Silk Road routes
  • 9. Opening sacrifice to seize positional advantage in strategic play
  • 10. Mongol precursor to chess, whose name echoes a fiery spirit
Down
  • 1. Checkers’ antecedent played widely along caravan routes
  • 6. conquest game of infinite depth, a Silk Road classic
  • 8. Ancient counting board term linked to Silk Road camel caravans
  • 11. Persian backgammon variant named for its wooden dice cups
  • 12. Ancient Central Asian game, the ‘five stones’ challenge of nomads
  • 13. Chinese burial game pieces symbolizing afterlife strategy
  • 14. A dice-based game named after the 13th-century poet on the trade lanes

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