See also: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
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
white
.
Each player has a set of 15 pieces, one set being See also:green, the other See also:pink
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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 (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
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 (a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Mond, Du. maan, Dan. maane, &c., and cognate with such Indo-Germanic forms as Gr. µlip, Sans. ma's, Irish mi, &c.; Lat. uses luna, i.e. lucna, the shining one, lucere, to shine, for the moon, but preserves the word i
- MOON, SIR RICHARD, 1ST BARONET (1814-1899)
moon-line, &c
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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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