Derived from traces a game back to the older form it grew out of. Wikipedia notes "forms of football in which the ball was carried and tossed date to the Middle Ages," a lineage rugby football drew on before splitting further "into the modern sports of rugby union and rugby league" in 1895. This dimension shows the sequence of games that led to a given one.
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1. Wikipedia: Draughts
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This European game was already being played in 1100, probably in the south of France.
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How does Displacement and Capture Games differ from the chess family of games?
Its pieces are identical or near-identical, unlike the differentiated ranks and powers of chess-family pieces.
Displacement and Capture Games covers games such as Alquerque, Draughts (Checkers), Fanorona and Surakarta, in which pieces move and capture opposing pieces by displacement. It is a Parlett family distinct from the chess family because its pieces are identical or near-identical rather than differentiated by role, which is why differentiated-piece capture games are grouped instead under Chess-Family War Games.