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Chapayev (game)
Chapayev (, 'game of Chapayev' or 'Chapayev's game') is a board game, a hybrid of checkers (draughts) and gamepiece-impact games like carrom, novuss, and pichenotte, giving it gameplay aspects in common with both billiards and table shuffleboard on a smaller scale, as well as some checkers strategy. It is played throughout the territory of the former USSR. The aim is to knock the opponent's pieces off the board. The game is named after the Russian Civil War hero, Vasily Chapayev. Equipment The game requires a checkerboard and checkers, eight pieces of each colour. Pieces are of small size (smaller than the squares on the board, or the game may be too easy), and usually made of wood. Rules The game is played in several rounds, with two players (or potentially with two teams of players alternating turns or shots during their turn). During the first round, white pieces are placed on the first row, and black on the last. White opens the game. (To neutralize the advantage, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chapayev Game (cropped)
Vasily Ivanovich Chapayev (; 5 September 1919) was a Russian soldier and Red Army commander during the Russian Civil War. Biography Chapayev was born into a poor peasant family in a village called , now part of Cheboksary. During World War I, he fought as a non-commissioned officer and was awarded the Cross of St. George three times. In September 1917, he joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks). In December he was elected commander of the 138 Infantry Regiment by a vote of the regiment's soldiers. He later commanded the 2nd Nikolaev Division and the 25th Rifle Division. Death On 5 September 1919, the divisional headquarters near Lbishchensk (renamed Chapayev in his honour) were ambushed by White Army forces (). The circumstances of Chapayev's death are uncertain and his body was never recovered. The canonical version that the wounded Chapayev drowned when trying to cross the Ural River was particularly popularized by the 1934 '' Chapayev'' (which w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Computer Simulation
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Russian Inventions
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Soviet Games
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Russian Games
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Shove Ha'penny
Shove ha'penny (or shove halfpenny) pronounced /ʃʌv ˈheɪpəni/ (with emphasis on 'shove') also known in ancestral form as shoffe-grote ['shove- groat' in Modern English], slype groat ['slip groat'], and slide-thrift, is a pub game in the shuffleboard family, played predominantly in the United Kingdom. Two players or teams compete against one another using coins or discs on a tabletop board. Board Shove ha'penny is played on a small, rectangular, smooth board usually made of wood or stone. A number of parallel lines or grooves run horizontally across this board, separated by about one-and-a-half coin diameters. The spaces between the lines (usually nine) are called the "beds". Five British halfpenny coins "ha'pennies" (now obsolete pre-decimalisation coinage, diameter 1 inch; 25mm) or similarly-sized coins or metal discs are placed one-by-one at one end of the board slightly protruding over the edge and are shoved forward toward scoring lines, with a blo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pitchnut
Pitchnut is a wooden tabletop game of French Canadian origins, similar to carrom, crokinole and pichenotte, with mechanics that lie somewhere between pocket billiards and air hockey. Unlike with other wooden board games, there are no records of pitchnut being mass-produced; all existing boards are handmade. Although Pitchnut is not a wiktionary:patented, patented game and is in the wiktionary:public domain, public domain, the names "Pitchnut" and "Pichenotte" have been trademarked. In French-speaking areas of Canada, the game is called pichenotte, which is French for "flick." There are several other disk-flicking games which are also referred to as 'pichenotte' by French speakers. Many modern boards are in use, made mostly bLee Larcheveque and before him, by Achille Scalabrini, in Sainte-Edwidge-de-Clifton, Quebec, Canada. The game is common on the farming villages near Coaticook, Quebec, Canada; in Maine; and in Amherst, Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pichenotte
Pichenotte ( / PEESH-nut) refers to a family of several :Disk-flicking games, disk-flicking games, mostly French Canadian in origin, including crokinole, pitchnut, and #Canadian–American carrom, North American carrom, which may sometimes be played with small cue sticks. Pichenotte is a Canadian French word wiktionary:pichenotte, meaning 'flick', which is derived from the European French word (), also meaning 'flick'. These folk games are in the public domain, and are not subject to copyright like a commercial board game. Nor are they patented games (though a now-expired patent for one board variant was issued in 1880 in New York). However, the names ''Pichenotte'' and ''Pitchnut'' are registered trademarks in the United States. The game community site ''Knipsbrat.com'' states that, like the German name ('flicking-board'), "pichenotte is another name for crokinole" The Canadian game board collection at the Quebec Museum of Civilization in Quebec City includes both the square ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Novuss
(also known as or ) is a two-player (or four-player, doubles) game of physical skill which is closely related to carrom and pocket billiards. Novuss originates from Estonia and Latvia, where it is a national sport. The board is approximately square, typically made of wood, has in each corner, and lines marked on the surface. The board is usually placed on a stand, but may be placed on a barrel or other surface that allows the pockets to hang down properly. It uses small discs instead of balls, and each player has a small puck instead of the used in other cue sports. Players use a small cue stick to propel their pucks into their colored object discs (the novuss equivalent of s), knocking them into the pockets. The winner is the first one to sink all eight of their object discs (of which there are sixteen in total in two different-coloured sets, plus the two pucks). The game is sometimes informally referred to as "Baltic billiards" or "Scandinavian billiards", but the latter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crokinole
Crokinole ( ) is a :Disk-flicking games, disk-flicking dexterity board game, possibly of Canadian origin, similar to the games of pitchnut, carrom, and pichenotte, with elements of shuffleboard and curling reduced to table-top size. Players take turns shooting discs across the circular playing surface, trying to land their discs in the higher-scoring regions of the board, particularly the recessed centre hole of 20 points, while also attempting to knock opposing discs off the board, and into the 'ditch'. In crokinole, the shooting is generally towards the centre of the board, unlike carroms and pitchnut, where the shooting is towards the four outer corner pockets, as in Pool (cue sports), pool. Crokinole is also played using cue sticks, and there is a special category for cue stick participants at the World Crokinole Championships in East Zorra-Tavistock, Tavistock, Ontario, Canada. Equipment Board dimensions vary with a playing surface typically of polished wood or laminate app ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carrom
Carrom is a tabletop game of Indian origin in which players flick discs, attempting to knock them to the corners of the board. In South Asia, many clubs and cafés hold regular tournaments. Carrom is commonly played by families, including children, and at social functions. Different standards and rules exist in different areas. Etymology The word ''carrom'' probably comes from ''carom'', which means "to strike and rebound". History The game of carrom originated in India. One carrom board with its surface made of glass is still available in one of the palaces in Patiala, India. State-level competitions were being held in the different states of India during the early part of the 20th century. Serious carrom tournaments may have begun in Sri Lanka in 1935; by 1958, both India and Sri Lanka had formed official federations of carrom clubs, sponsoring tournaments and awarding prizes. The International Carrom Federation (ICF) was formed in the year 1988 in Chennai, India. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
