Lasca

Laska is a coined by the German chess champion Emanuel Lasker board game for two people.

Formation

Lasker developed the game in 1911 from the English Draughts and a variant of the Russian checkers ( Baschni ). His goal was to avoid the frequently occurring in the English Draughts indecisive outcome of the game ( draw) and to provide for varied game mechanics.

A counterfeit of the game was made ​​in 1919 in the U.S. under the name Stax on the market.

Game rules

Laska is played on a board with 25 fields in 7 rows. The rows have alternating 4 and 3 fields. Each party has 11 identical flat tiles ( white or black) that are placed at the beginning of the game on the respective first 3 rows. The middle row is initially free.

The two players move alternately. The moves of the stones is like checkers: one space forward diagonally. Enemy stones can (and must ) be skipped if they are diagonally before one 's own stone and the backing field is free. Multiple jumps are, if possible, obligation, but it does not necessarily have the train be chosen, where most of opponent's stones are skipped. Achieved a stone the opponent's back rank, he was promoted to officer, which is characterized by replacement of the stone in question by a different colored stone. Officers can both forward and backward pull, but only one square diagonally.

Unlike checkers skipped opponent's pieces are not removed from the board, but " enslaved ", that is placed under the skipping stone. This is how the game progresses towers of different heights. They belong to the player who owns the color of the upper stone. If a tower in turn is skipped, only his top stone is enslaved. The rest of the tower remains standing and possibly changes hands.

The aim of the game is to take the enemy all the bricks or to immobilize him.