LATRUNCULI

Ancient Rome
Lost game

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HISTORY
+ Ludus latrunculorum, latrunculi, or simply latrones (“the game of brigands†, from latrunculus, diminutive of latro, mercenary
or highwayman) was a 2-player strategy board game commonly played throughout the Roman Empire.
+ It has some similarities chess or draughts, but is generally accepted to be a game of military tactics. Because of the paucity of
sources, reconstruction of the game's rules and basic structure is difficult, and therefore there are multiple interpretations of the
available evidence and the game we play today.

HOW TO START
+ To play Latrunculi you need a standart 12x8 board.
+ Each player has 12 game pieces and one king. The 12 game pieces are positioned in the front row at the start of the game.
+ The kings are placed in the middle of the 2nd row opposite to each other.

RULES
+ If a player can trap an enemy piece between two friendly pieces, the enemy piece is blocked and cannot be moved.
+ Such a piece is called alligatus. To make it clear that a piece is an alligatus, it is turned upside down.
+ In the next turn, instead of moving a piece, the player can capture the trapped piece by removing it from the board, provided his own
two surrounding pieces are still free.
+ The trapped piece is immediately free if one of its two enemies is itself surrounded.
+ A player can move a piece between two enemies and "commit" suicide.
+ The gameboard of Latrunculi

GAMEPLAY
+ When all the pieces have been placed, the players take turns to move pieces on the board.
+ The pieces can be moved orthogonally to any adjacent square.
+ A piece can leap over any single piece of either color, if the square behind is unoccupied. Several leaps in one turn are possible (like
in draughts).

HOW TO WIN
+ The winner is the player who has reduced his opponent to only one game piece left on the board.

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