Beyond the Anglo-American Board: Six Games from Four Continents

Xiangqi: Chinese Chess, its palace bound general and jumping cannon, and the live scholarly dispute over whether it descends from Chaturanga or arose independently.

Janggi: Korean Chess, close enough to Xiangqi to recognize on sight, different enough in its elephant, cannon and diagonal palace lines to play as its own game.

Pachisi: the Mughal court race game whose giant stone board at Fatehpur Sikri turned an emperor's courtyard into a life sized playing field.

Senet: ancient Egypt's race and capture game, old enough to predate writing in its region and later reimagined as a map of the afterlife.

Nine Men's Morris: a grid simple enough to have been scratched into stone on four continents, which is exactly why nobody can prove where it began.

Reversi to Othello: a Victorian patent dispute standardized into a Japanese trademark, and the reason this atlas records Othello as an alias rather than a separate game.