Salta is a two-player abstract strategy board game invented in 1899 by Konrad Heinrich Buttgenbach, who was born near Dusseldorf, Germany. Played on a continental checkers board of one hundred squares, one player controls pieces marked in green on a white ground and the other controls pieces marked in red on a black ground, and the objective is to be the first to move all of one's pieces across the board by jumping over pieces, friendly or opposing, without capturing them. The name Salta comes from the Italian or Latin word for jump. The game is related in mechanism to Halma, Chinese checkers and Conspirateurs, and it reached its greatest popularity in France and Germany before the First World War; a luxurious mahogany edition with gold counters set with more than five thousand diamonds was displayed at the 1900 Paris World's Fair. Recorded enthusiasts of the game included the chess masters Frank Marshall and Emanuel Lasker and the actress Sarah Bernhardt.
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Salta is two-player abstract strategy board game invented by Konrad Heinrich Buttgenbach in 1899 in Germany.
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invented by Konrad Heinrich Buttgenbach in 1899 in Germany
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Salta is two-player abstract strategy board game
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