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SALTA (Italian for " jump!")

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 91 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SALTA (See also:Italian for " jump!")  , a table-See also:game for two introduced at the end of the 19th See also:century, founded on the more See also:ancient game of See also:Halma . It is played on a See also:board containing See also:loo squares, coloured alternately See also:black and See also:white . Each player has a set of 15 pieces, one set being See also:green, the other See also:pink . These are placed upon the black squares of the first three rows nearest the player, and are classified in these rows as stars, moons and suns . The pawns move forward one square at a See also:time, except when a See also:pawn is situated in front of a hostile piece with an unoccupied space on the further See also:side, in which See also:case the hostile pawn must be jumped, as at See also:draughts, but without removing the jumped pawn from the board . The See also:object of the game is to get one's pieces on the exact squares corresponding to their own on the enemy's side, the stars in the See also:star-See also:line, the moons in the See also:moon-line, &c . See also:Salta tournaments have taken See also:place in which See also:chess masters of repute participated . See Salta, by See also:Schubert (See also:Leipzig, 1900) .

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