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Evidence for Shantarad
1 pieces of evidence found.
Id DLP.Evidence.868
Type Ethnography
Location Somaliland
Date 1931-01-01 - 1931-12-31
Rules 5 x 5 board, players take turns placing two pieces at a time, move orthogonally, custodial capture.
Content "3. Shantarad (Issaq)=bub(Darod) . Related to Arabian siga and Japanese gp. It is played on a checker of 5 x 5 squares drawn on the ground. Each of the two players provides himself with a set of 12 stones of distinctive colour, and places two stones at a time on whichever free square he chooses, with the exception of the centre one (called deh, "centre"). When the twenty-four stones are placed, the person who put the last couplr has the first move. The stones are shifted to any adjacent square, but never diagonally. If by so moving a player can place one of his opponent's stones between two of his own, he removes it from the game, and can go on playing as long as he sees the possibility of taking pieces by single moves. The accompanying figure shows how three stones can be taken by a single move (by shifting white stone as indicated by the arrow). On the other hand, a player can saely place one of his own stones between two of his opponent's. A stone in the deh cannot be taken. When a player is unable to move, his opponent must give him an opening by making an extra move." Marin 1931: 595–596.
Confidence 100
Source Marin, G. 1931. Somali Games. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. 61: 499-511.
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