Origin region names the specific place where a game was actually first played. Wikipedia notes "rugby football started at Rugby School in Rugby, Warwickshire, England," a single school whose name the sport still carries. This dimension shows which places have given the world their own distinctive games.
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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.