About this game
This checkers variant was published early in WWI. The Allied flags on the cover include Japan and Russia as well as France, Belgium and the United Kingdom, but not Italy, which joined the Allies in April 1915. The German side shows only German and Austro-Hungarian flags. The board is a 15 x 21 square grid laid over a map of Europe. The playing pieces are wooden disks on larger cardboard circles. Each piece has the name of a city on it.
Mechanism
Move and control
Rules
Players take turns placing their pieces on the enemy side of the board with city information down. They then move pieces one at a time in any direction, and move faster by jumping over friendly or enemy pieces. When first moving a piece, its information goes face up, and stays up until it reaches its destination. The first player to get all pieces back to their home cities wins.
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