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Evidence for Ashanti Draughts
1 pieces of evidence found.
Id DLP.Evidence.1874
Type Ethnography
Location Nineteenth Century Ashanti
Date 1817-01-01 - 1817-12-31
Rules Similar to Polish Draughts. Pieces move forwards and backwards, and also capture forwards and backwards. Promoted pieces moves diagonally any number of spaces.
Content "...we walked out in the town, and conversed and played drafts with (them), who were reclining under trees...Their principal games are...Drafts, which (they) play well and constantly. Their method resembles the Polish, they take and move backwards and forwards, and a king has the bishop's move in chess." Bowditch 1819: 114, 303.
Confidence 100
Spaces Outside, Public
Source Bowditch, T. 1819. Mission from Cape Coast Castle to Ashantee, with a Statistical Account of that Kingdom, and Geographical Notices of other Parts of the Interior of Africa. London: J. Murray.
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