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Evidence for Challis Ghutia
1 pieces of evidence found.
Id DLP.Evidence.1641
Type Ethnography
Location 22°35'39.17"N, 88°23'1.15"E 25°44'44.25"N, 82°41'2.57"E
Date 1939-01-01 - 1939-12-31
Rules 9x9 intersecting lines forming a square. Forty pieces per player, lined up on the intersections on the rows closest to them, and the right half of the central line. Players alternate turns moving pieces to an empty adjacent spot along the lines. A piece may capture an opponent's piece by hopping over it to the empty spot immediately on the opposite side of it, following the lines of the board. Multiple captures are allowed. The player who captures all of the opponent's pieces wins.
Content "The present writer abserved the following game described as Challis-Gutia (the game of forty pieces) by the men playing them in the streets of Calcutta near Ultadanga. They all hail from Jaunpur in the United Provinces; and they told him that this game is also played in their home district. The diagram of the game is shown in Fig. 1. One player occupied the points marked with X's with his 40 pieces-tiny bits of coal; his opponent places his 40 pieces - tiny bits of potsherd at the points enclosed by O's. the pieces move one place at a time either vertically or horizontally, if it is vacant; and they capture the opponent's pieces by jumping over the same in a straight line to a vacant point opposite. Successive captures are allowed. The winner is to capture all the pieces of his opponent." Datta 1939: 257-258.
Confidence 100
Ages Adult
Spaces Outside, Public
Genders Male
Source Datta, J. 1939. "Challis-Gutia and its Degenerate Variants." Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 5: 257-258.
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