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Lasca (also called Laska or Laskers) is a draughts (or checkers) variant, invented by the second World Chess Champion Emanuel Lasker (1868–1941). Lasca is derived from English draughts (American checkers) and the Russian draughts game bashni (Towers).
An illustration from Joseph Lauthier's Nouvelles Règles pour le jeu de mail (1717). Jeu de mail or jeu de maille ('pallamaglio' in Italian, Middle French for 'mallet game', or sometimes interpreted as 'straw game') is an ancient outdoor game, originally from Naples, [1] which gave rise to numerous modern sports, such as golf, croquet, hockey and its variations, and polo. [2]
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Lasca is a draughts (or checkers) variant. Lasca may also refer to: Lasca, a 1919 American silent Western; Lasca, an 1882 poem by Frank Desprez; Francesco Lasca (born 1988), Italian road bicycle racer; Lasca, Alabama, an unincorporated community in Marengo County; Lasca, Texas, a ghost town in Hudspeth County
Emergo is an abstract strategy game created by Christian Freeling and Ed van Zon in 1986. It belongs to the "stacking" category of games, or column checkers, along with Bashni and Lasca. [2] The name comes from the motto of the Dutch province of Zeeland: Luctor et emergo meaning: "I wrestle and emerge". [3]
Accasta was influenced by Dr. Emanuel Lasker's Lasca and Wladyslaw Gliński's hexagonal chess. Dieter Stein tried to achieve a clean and original game differing from the hexagonal chess but to have minor similarities.
In January 2019 Jason Scott uploaded the source code of this game to the Internet Archive. [92] Team Fortress 2: 2007 2012 Windows first-person shooter: Valve: A 2008 version of the game's source code was leaked alongside several other Orange Box games in 2012. [109] In 2020, an additional 2017 build of the game was leaked. [233] Tempest 2000: ...