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Lasca

Displacement and Capture Games

Lasca is a two-player draughts variant invented by Emanuel Lasker, the second World Chess Champion, who combined the rules of English draughts with the Russian game bashni after learning of it during nineteenth century chess tournaments in Moscow and Saint Petersburg. It is played on a board of sixty one squares with pieces called officers and soldiers, and unlike standard checkers, a captured piece is not removed from the board but is instead placed underneath the piece that captured it, forming a growing column of pieces that moves and captures as a single unit controlled by whichever color sits on top. This column mechanic means material can change hands repeatedly during a single game, since capturing a column that has an enemy piece buried inside it can flip control of pieces that were captured many turns earlier. Lasker's game was commercially produced starting in 1911, with factory-made sets sold across Europe and the United States under his design.

Facts
Origin Year
1911 2
Playing Time
30 3
Designer
Emanuel Lasker 3
Publisher
(Public Domain) 3
Publisher
Block House Inc 3
Publisher
F.X. Schmid 3
Publisher
Fratelli Fabbri Editori (Fabbri Editore) 3
Publisher
Hans Joseph GmbH 3
Publisher
L. P. Septímio 3
Publisher
nestorgames 3
Publisher
The Game Crafter, LLC 3
Publisher
WOSI "Wspólna Sprawa" 3
Publisher
Wünnenberg Verlags-KG 3
Game Category
Abstract Strategy 3
Game Mechanic
Grid Movement 3
Game Mechanic
Player Elimination 3
Game Mechanic
Square Grid 3
Minimum Players
2 3
Maximum Players
2 3
Classification
Player Count
Two-Player 1
Sport
Game Type (category)
Strategy Game 1
Connections

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Sources
1. Lasca (Wikipedia)
  • Infobox 'players' field: 2
  • Infobox genre/type field: "Board game; Abstract strategy game"
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2. Wikipedia (German): Laska (Spiel)
Wikipedia (German)Article text (year of origin)
Quote, Article text (year of origin)
Lasker entwickelte das Spiel 1911 aus dem englischen Damespiel und einer Variante des russischen Damespiels ( Baschni ).
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3. Laska (BoardGameGeek)
  • Playing Time: 30
  • Designer: Emanuel Lasker
  • Publisher: (Public Domain)
  • Publisher: Block House Inc
  • Publisher: F.X. Schmid
  • Publisher: Fratelli Fabbri Editori (Fabbri Editore)
  • Publisher: Hans Joseph GmbH
  • Publisher: L. P. Septímio
  • Publisher: nestorgames
  • Publisher: The Game Crafter, LLC
  • Publisher: WOSI "Wspólna Sprawa"
  • Publisher: Wünnenberg Verlags-KG
  • Game Category: Abstract Strategy
  • Game Mechanic: Grid Movement
  • Game Mechanic: Player Elimination
  • Game Mechanic: Square Grid
  • Minimum Players: 2
  • Maximum Players: 2
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