Fanorona is a two-player strategy board game from Madagascar, played on a five-by-nine grid of intersections, in which players capture opposing pieces by approaching or withdrawing custody moves along the grid lines, with the game traditionally ending when one side has captured all of the opponent's pieces or neither side can capture further. It is Madagascar's national board game and is generally considered to have developed on the island, with some scholars linking its lineage to earlier alignment and capture games such as alquerque, though the precise line of descent is debated among historians of the game.
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Originating Region Game TypeAbstract strategy board game 1 Sport
Game Type (category) Game Type (category) Classification
Player CountWikipedia infobox (Fanorona) players field: '2' Connections
Derived From
Alquerque, Games Why this is disputed. Fanorona is Madagascar's national board game; some scholars link its lineage to alquerque-family capture games introduced by Arab or later traders, but the precise line of descent is debated among game historians rather than settled, per the entity's own record.
Source A History of Board-Games Other Than ChessH.J.R. Murray
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The game is indigenous to Madagascar.
Introduction
Fanorona (Malagasy pronunciation: [fə̥ˈnurnə̥]) is a strategy board game for two players.
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Fanorona is a two-player strategy board game from Madagascar, played on a five-by-nine grid of intersections, in which players capture opposing pieces by approaching or withdrawing custody moves along the grid lines, with the game traditionally ending when one side has captured all of the opponent's pieces or neither side can capture further. It is Madagascar's national board game and is
View the Source2. Cyningstan Traditional Board Games: Fanorona
Cyningstan Traditional Board GamesHistory of FanoronaQuote, History of Fanorona
The game dates to 1680.
Wikidata: Fanorona
Wikidata Q1395834, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source A History of Board-Games Other Than Chess
H.J.R. Murray, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1952Derived From: Alquerque
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