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Riga DLP Game   

Period Modern

Region Southern Europe

Category Reconstruction, Done, Board, War, Leaping, Lines

Description

Riga is a capturing game played in seventeenth century Sicily.

Rules

5x5 intersecting lines with diagonals drawn in the quadrants. Twelve pieces per player, which begin on the lines closest to each player, leaving the central space empty.

These rules were taken from the Historical Information ruleset.

All Rulesets

Reconstructed rulesets
Riga (Ludii 1) Reconstructed with Ludii
Riga (Ludii 2) Reconstructed with Ludii
Riga (Ludii 3) Reconstructed with Ludii
Riga (Ludii 4) Reconstructed with Ludii

Incomplete rulesets
Historical Information Rules from DLP evidence.

Origin

Italy

Ludeme Description

Riga.lud

Concepts

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Reference

van der Stoep 1984: 79.

Evidence Map

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Sources

Carrera, P. 1617. Il gioco de gli scacchi. Giovanni de'Rossi da Trento.

van der Stoep, A. 1984. A History of Draughts: with a Diachronic Study of Words for Draughts, Chess, Backgammon, and Morris. trans. by Monique de Meijer. The Hague: CIP-Gegevens Koninklijke Bibliotheek.

Identifiers

DLP.Games.1249


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