Chess based on Manas, a Kyrgyz traditional epic poem

The Epic of Manas is a traditional epic poem dating to the 18th century but claimed by Kyrgyz tradition to be much older. The plot of Manas revolves around a series of events that coincide with the history of the region in the 9th century, primarily the interaction of the Kyrgyz people with other Turkic and Chinese people. In one of its dozens of iterations, the epic poem consists of approximately 500,000 lines.