• The ArenA
  • The Pit
  • Play / Watch
  • Get
  • About

MindSports

  1. You are here:  
  2. Home
  3. On the Evolution of Draughts Variants
  4. Contact Draughts

Main menu

  • Home
  • The ArenA
  • The Pit
  • AiAi
  • Dagaz
  • Axiom Game System
  • Puzzles
  • Game links
  • Puzzle links
  • How I invented games and why not
  • Balancing protocols in symmetric 2-player games
  • Draughts Dissected
  • On the Evolution of Draughts Variants
    • Preface
    • Grids
    • History
    • Evolutionary pressure
    • Draughts variants
    • Contact Draughts
    • Column Checkers
    • Hexagonal variants
  • On 'inside out' inventing
  • Organicity in abstract strategy games
  • Othelloanian capture in Go variants
  • Sight Lines & Knight Spots
  • Clarity - foggy notions
  • Chad, Shakti & the irony
  • And now for something completely different
  • Moving forward looking back
  • I Ching Connexion
  • I Ching links

Who's Online

We have 73 guests and no members online

Contact Draughts variants


regular draughts

contact draughts
Draughts' basic mechanism of capture is by leapfrogging, as shown on the left.
Contact draughts' basic mechanism of capture is by contact, as shown on the right. There are only two known contact draughts games, one traditional and one modern.

Fanorona
Fanorona is the national game of Madagascar. Not much of its history is clear. Wiki reiterates a legendary story about King Ralambo (1575-1610) implying that the game was played during his reign.

Bushka
Bushka originally used a trimmed down version of Fanorona's way of capture and put it in a framework of rules based on International Draughts. The literal transposition proved wanting however, and an additional mechanism of linear movement and capture was introduced, that has served the game's spirit exellently ever since, not to mention that Dameo's linear movement was derived from it.

© 1997-2025 MindSports
powered by Joomla!