
Belorusskie Shashki and similar variants on plus.gambler.Countrymen in early rounds, thus stripping one another of the points,8 the Soviets. Linder, Pervye Russkie mastera The First Russian Chess Masters. Shakhmaty i Shashki v Rabochem Klube, April 15, 1926, 9. by capturing or blocking all of the opposing player's pieces. Russkie Shashki ( ), also known as Russian Checkers or Russian Draughts in the west, is a very popular variant of checkers in Russia. The Russia chess historian, Linder, used the term chess cult31 to describe the passion for the. The goal of the game is similar to that of Russian Checkers: a player wins by leaving the opposing player with no legal moves, i.e. After that they move and capture as the respective chess piece (for the complete chess rules see the link below).Ī king can be captured like any other piece. They promote when they advance to the eighth rank and become a queen, rook, bishop, knight or even a king of the same color. The pawns move and capture like the pawns in chess. The damki (дамки) move and capture as in Russian Checkers, too. That is, the checkers move and capture like the men in Russian Checkers and promotoe like them. The game has rules similar to Russian Checkers and Chess. The game, which was invented around 1984, is a cross-over between Russian Checkers and Chess, but because of the object of that game it is actually a little bit closer to checkers. Belorusskie Shashki ("Byelorussian Checkers" - Белорусские шашки) is a variant of Russian Checkers. 0 Comments The game is also performed in Belarus, Ukrainé, Estonia and amóng European Jews in Israel.
