Konane
Kōnane is a strategy - board game for two people from Hawaii . It was conceived by the Polynesians who live there .
Style of play
The game begins by covering a specially made symmetrical board or a standard chess or checkers board alternately with black and white pieces. Then one black and one white stone are taken from the middle of the playing field. The removing player holds these two stones face down in one hand each and the other player chooses a hand and thus a piece color. Black always begins. The two stones removed are given to the other player and are therefore the first stone hit. In the further course of the game, opposing stones can be captured by jumping over if they are horizontal or vertical to your own stone and there is a free space behind this stone; Depending on the variation of the game, several stones can be hit and removed from the board.
The aim of the game is to make the last possible move; it doesn't matter how many opposing stones you have captured. Despite the similarity of the moves, this game does not belong to the checkers family .
history
The exact origins of the game are unknown. However, playing surfaces ( Hawaiian papamū ) have been found carved on rocks , which were then played with different colored shells. James Cook described this game in Volume III of the travelogue of his third voyage of discovery between 1776 and 1780.
Individual evidence
- ↑ kōnane in Hawaiian Dictionaries , meaning also: bright moonlight, like the moon shine; Capa pattern
- ↑ papamū in Hawaiian Dictionaries
- ↑ James Cook et al. a .: A voyage to the pacific Ocean [...] Digitized on Archive.org, accessed on September 4, 2018. p. 312.