stackyFACTSUtilizing a cross-shaped cloth board, ancient Indian players engaged in highly strategic pawn movements governed by the tossing of specialized dice. It served as a highly sophisticated method for otherwise dignified scholars to relentlessly block each other’s progress out of sheer spite.
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