Kowwu Dunki - A Variant of Ahtarah Gutti ( Eighteen Pieces)
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- Title (dcterms:title)
- Kowwu Dunki - A Variant of Ahtarah Gutti ( Eighteen Pieces)
- Description (dcterms:description)
- This game along with another variant was recorded by E. De. M. Humphries in Karwi, a district in Uttar Pradesh. He mentions that these variants have the same rules as another game recorded by him and mentioned in the same essay, known as Ahtarah Gutti ( Eighteen Pieces). The only information we get on these variants is the changes in the shapes of their boards and the second board shown in the second image was played in Bargarh when he recorded these. These variants are important to understand how a board can change the strageties of a game. One major difference is that due to the changes on the board, Kowwu Dunki is played on a board of 21 spaces, instead of 37 spaces which changes the play pattern.
- Alternative Title (dcterms:alternative)
- Ahtarah Gutti ( Eighteen Pieces), Bazi Mar, Tichha or Bangala.
- Rules (dcterms:instructionalMethod)
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As mentioned by Humphries, the rules are similar to Ahtarah Gutti ( Eighteen Pieces).
Rules of Ahtarah Gutti ( Eighteen Pieces):-
The moves are much the same as those of a king in draughts. Le., a piece can be moved one space at a time in any direction, backwards or forwards, provided that the space to which it is sought to move it is vacant and is in the same rank, file or diagonal as that from which it starts. Captures are made, as in draughts, by leaping over the piece to be captured in any direction, provided that all three spaces are in the same straight line. Any number of pieces may be captured in succession in one move. In no part of the board is a piece safe from capture : not even in its own bungalow, as the triangular excrescences at either end of the board are called. It is considered advisable to occupy the spaces along the edges of the board, and particularly those at either extremity of the horizontal diameter of the original square.
- Creator (dcterms:creator)
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E. De. M. Humphries
- Source (dcterms:source)
- 'Notes on "Pachesi" & Similar Games' by E. De. M. Humphries in Sedentary Games of India eds. Nirbed Ray and Amitabha Ghosh
- Contributor (dcterms:contributor)
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E. De. M. Humphries
- Rights (dcterms:rights)
- Creative Commons
- Format (dcterms:format)
- Boardgames
- Medium (dcterms:medium)
- Boardgames on Text
- References (dcterms:references)
- 'Notes on "Pachesi" & Similar Games' by E. De. M. Humphries in Sedentary Games of India
- Spatial Coverage (dcterms:spatial)
- Uttar Pradesh
- Variants (dcterms:isVersionOf)
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Kowwu Dunki - A Variant of Ahtarah Gutti ( Eighteen Pieces)
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Pam Pait
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Atharah Guti (Eighteen Pieces)
- Entered by (dcterms:accrualMethod)
- Adrija Mukherjee
- Notes (foaf:status)
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A civil servant who was appointed as the Sub-divisicnal Officer at Karwi Sub-division at IJ.P. in 1904 Submitted an inspection report on Mauza Gidarah, Pargana Karwi, the extract of which was published in the Journal of the Asiatic Society.
The essay mentions the United Province which was the term used for the region of Uttar Pradesh during the British Period. - Tags (dcterms:conformsTo)
- Sedentary Games
- Kowwu Dunki
- Alquerque Games
- Ahtarah Gutti
- Uttar Pradesh
- Capture
- Two-player
