ParchÃs
Parchís Pachisi is a Spanish derivative. He is closely related to the German Ludo.
Terminology
The Spaniards have given the individual elements of their own names:
- The colored corners hot Cárceles ( prisons ) or casas (houses).
- The rectangular boxes in in their own color are salidas (outputs) called.
- The rectangular fields in a different color or match the white with the gray dots are called seguros (safe zones).
- The triangular panels in the middle are called metas ( goals ).
- A blockade of two pieces of the same color will barrera ( barriers) or puente (bridge ) called.
- The number of words siete (seven), diez (ten) and veinte (twenty) indicate by how many fields may advance a pawn.
- To capture an opponent's piece is ( eat ) as comer or capturar ( capture ) called.
Game History
The game consists of a game board with a circular course of numbered fields (1 - 68). This counting is facilitated at the figure hitting. If an opposing character is hit, the winner may advance twenty fields. Also, a player may advance ten fields with a different character when he has brought a character to the finish. The dice rules are analogous to the German game Ludo: must pull out from their own corner of a player who has rolled a five. In a six must be rolled again. Three times six but all have their own characters who are not yet at the center, will be put back in the corner. The six counts double.
Software
From this game, there is an open source software implementation. It is called glParchís. The gl in the name comes from OpenGL, an open source platform-independent graphics library.
Weblink
- Website of glParchís