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Checkers Around the WorldInvented Checkers Variants ~ Lasca
HistoryWorld Chess master, Emanuel Lasker, invented this checkers variant during the early 1900’s. The chess champion was born in Berlinchen, Germany, in 1868. Though a student of mathematics at university, Emanuel Lasker also had interests in the natural sciences, philosophy and various types of games.
A master of chess, Lasker is perhaps best known for his brilliant strategy against world champion, Wilhelm Steinitz, in a chess match in 1894 where Lasker won the championship and the title. During the next 27 years, Emanuel Lasker amazingly held the world champion title due to his mastery in the game and his ‘psychological’ method of play in which he considered both the subjective qualities of his opponents and the objective requirements of his strategic position on the game board. Lasker paid little attention to the opening of the game, was extremely resourceful in the middlegame and was noted as playing the endgame at the highest level of expertise; however, despite his excellent skill in the chess game, he unfortunately lost his title to José Raúl Capablanca in a championship match in 1921.
In 1925, Emanuel Lasker wrote “Lasker’s Manual of Chess”. This treatise became well known in chess circles for the philosophical tone of its content. He also published other books on board and card games. It was during his reign as Chess Grandmaster that he invented the checkers variant, LASCA.
Rules of the Game:~ Game Board ~
Note:The Lasca Association in Cambridge (UK) originally designed a more elegant game board for LASCA than the standard checkered chessboard because, while it is topologically the same, it reduced the size of the unused black squares and could easily be rendered on a piece of cardboard.![]() ![]() ![]()
This board has also changed the squares to circles and the dark squares have become the background so that the new board does not really resemble its chessboard predecessor overly much. ~ Object of the Game ~
~ Starting Position ~
~ Game Moves & Captures ~
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