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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]
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]
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Checkers [note 1] (American English), also known as draughts (/ d r ɑː f t s, d r æ f t s /; British English), is a group of strategy board games for two players which involve forward movements of uniform game pieces and mandatory captures by jumping over opponent pieces.
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An abstract strategy game is a board, card or other game where game play does not simulate a real world theme, and a player's decisions affect the outcome.Many abstract strategy games are also combinatorial, i.e. they provide perfect information, and rely on neither physical dexterity nor random elements such as rolling dice or drawing cards or tiles.