Chapayev (game)

Chapaev ( Чапаев ) is a known, especially in the former Soviet Union skill board game for two players.

Game rules

Chapaev is usually played on a checkers game board, as well as draughtsmen, the so-called Schaschki ( lady ). The tiling is only for setting up the relevant figures.

At the beginning of the game, players put on two opposite sides of the board of eight (or for large game boards ten) stones next to each other on in a row. The starting player is now trying to flip one of your pieces with the index finger so that it is experiencing one or more of the opponent's pieces from the board, but without losing their own game pieces. If this is successful, he may snap again, otherwise the opponent 's turn. A round ( "battle" ) is over when a player has no more stones on the playing field. The winner, who still has stones left.

The stones are collected after each round and reorganized. Was there a winner, he shall, with its stones, continue to move up one line and thereby possibly the opponent's pieces to a number of push back. The aim of the game is to complete the game to cross so.

In addition, it is generally not allowed to turn the game or to leave his position to be able to flip easier, for example, from another side. Lands a stone on the edge of the playing field, this is raised in order to check whether this is still in the game or not. Furthermore, there are some special techniques, such as the "scissors ": there is an opponent's stone between two of its own, we may push these two together quickly in order to catapult the stone between them from the board.

Variants

In a variation of the game the players do not move in front with their stones, but begin each round of the first row, but the stones are stacked in a strategic manner.