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Traditional Games from India: Get Ready
for some Indoor Board and Strategy
Games!
How many such board games have faded away! I wish to revive some games
and memories through this post.
Ashtapada
Like a chess board, the Ashtapada board is divided into an eight-by-eight grid
of squares, although they are all the same color. The board has special
markings known as "castles", where pieces are safe from being captured or
removed from play when mating with an opponent. Each player receives an
even number of pieces to play the game. The goal is to move a piece around
the board clockwise, entering the castle, and to regain his castle back in a
counterclockwise direction so as to make it reach the center. A variant played
on a larger ten-by-ten board is known as Dasapada
