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Evidence for Caturvimsatikosthakatmiki Krida
1 pieces of evidence found.
Id DLP.Evidence.1977
Type Contemporary rule description
Location 19°51'38.91"N, 75°20'35.95"E
Date 1871-01-01 - 1871-12-31
Rules 3x12 board. The second space from the left and from the right in the center row are marked with an X. Eight pieces per player, which begin in the row closest to the player. Players alternate turns moving a piece to an empty adjacent space in an orthogonal direction. A player may capture an opponent's piece in the central row by hopping over it to an empty space on the opposite side of it. The player who reduces their opponent to fewer than four pieces wins.
Content Discussion of Kridakausalya by Harikrsna: "Related in character to the war-game I have just described is a kind of running-fight game called caturvimsatikosthakatmiki krida = 'game (on a board with) 24 squares.' As one can see in diagram 10 which is likewise a reproduction from the KK, these 24 squares are arranged in three rows of eight squares each. The game is played by two people, each of them having 8 white and 8 red 'soldiers' respectively which are placed on the squares of the player's back row. The row in the centre remains vacant. It is called the fighting place, evidently, because it is only there that the pieces of the enemy may be captured. Like the afore-mentioned 'cemetery-game', the possibility of capturing is given if a piece stands alone with no other piece of its own colour behind it. The moves of the pieces are restricted to one step in all four directions; only in the first move may each soldier of the two opposing parties take two steps at a time, a rule which reminds us, of course, of the initial move of the foot-soldier in chess. The player who has four pieces left has won the game." Bock-Raming 1995: 122-123.
Confidence 100
Source Bock-Raming, A. 1995. "The Literary Sources of Indian Chess and Related Board Games." In A. de Voogt (ed.), New Approaches to Board Games Research: Asian Origins and Future Perspectives. Leiden: International Institute for Asian Studies.
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