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Carrom men and one striker, arranged at the start of a game. Carrom is played using small disks of wood or plastic known as carrom men (sometimes abbreviated CM, c.m. c/m, etc.). These pieces, aside from the special queen, may also be known as seeds, coins, pawns (as in chess), or pucks. Carrom men are designed to slide when struck and are made ...
Playing pieces, also called 'nuts' are wooden disks approximately 1 + 1 ⁄ 4-inch diameter and 3/8 inch tall with convex sides, made of maple wood. Typically, there are 10 black nuts, 10 white nuts and one red nut called the poison. The poison is similar to the queen in carrom and the jack or pallino in several lawn/court bowling games such as ...
Kings of War, (often abbreviated to KoW) is a tabletop wargame created by Mantic Games. The game has been designed for armies of fantasy miniatures . It uses stock fantasy races such as Elves , [ 1 ] Dwarves , Undead [ 2 ] and Orcs , [ 3 ] as well as demonic version of Dwarfs known as Abyssal Dwarfs. [ 4 ]
One of the earliest references to carrom in India is a glass carrom board found in a palace in Patiala, Punjab. [2] It gained widespread popularity among the middle class during the 20th century. Early evidence suggests that it was inspired by billiards or pool, albeit adapted to Indian cultural contexts, using a flat board instead of pockets.
The International Carrom Federation (ICF) is the international governing body for the game of carrom.Such an organisation was first proposed in the 1950s, but the ICF was not formed until October 1988, when delegates from India, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, Malaysia, Germany and Switzerland met in Madras, India, for the first World Carrom Congress, at which the ICF was formed and an international ...
The 2016 Carrom World Championship, was the 7th edition of an international Carrom tournament governed by the I nternational Carrom Federation, contested from 7 to 11 November 2016 in Birmingham, United Kingdom. Fifteen countries had competed in the tournament.
The Asian Carrom Confederation became affiliated with the AICF in September 1995. The All-India Carrom Federation and the game of carrom was recognized [clarification needed] by the Indian Olympic Association on 26 October 1997. The game of carrom was also recognized by the School Games Federation of India in 1996.
After dropping out of school at the age of 14, he started playing carrom at the age of 17 representing local clubs. He won his first local carrom tournament in 1977. [5] He was encouraged by his family and friends to play carrom against veterans. Several times, he was member of the Indian team winning a team event in a tournament.