Laska (1911)

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Designer	Emanuel Lasker Eugen Oker
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Publisher	FX Schmid Hans Joseph GmbH igGameCenter L. P. Septímio
Year Published	1911
# of Players	2
User Suggested # of Players	Best with 2 players Recommended with 2 players (4 voters) [poll]
Playing Time	30 minutes
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Language Dependence	No necessary in-game text (3 voters) [poll]
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Family	Checkers
Primary Name	Laska
Alternate Names	Lasca Laskers
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World Chess Champion Emanuel Lasker developed this variant of the Checkers Family, which is challenging and interesting. Captured checkers stay on the board and may still capture other checkers and free captured ones - really lots of possible ways to win this game....

Lasca was influenced by Bashni.

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FX Schmid First edition

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Year: 1973

Size: 11.81 x 8.66 x 2.36 inches

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Emanuel Lasker`s 1911 brochure and rules

The first document about the game, published by designer and Chess World Champion Emanuel Lasker in 1911 including rules, sample games and puzzles.

duchamp

2009-01-19

lasca.pdf

Lasca board

Pionek

2006-12-12

Laska -- A dozen moves --annotated.PNG

Laska: first 12 moves of a game illustrating rules with annotation unreadable in jpg

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2006-09-09

Lasca board.pdf

Replacement board

GeoMan

2006-02-11

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Website with german rules of the 1973 edition from F.X. Schmid	http://www.rgh-soft.de/sprace/laska.htm	2011-05-18
Ascal - Lasca for Gnome	http://ascal.sourceforge.net/	2011-05-18
Lasca.org	http://www.lasca.org	2011-05-18
German revieww at spielphase	http://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/keirat/tx...	2009-07-16
Photos from the German "Lasker-Gesellschaft" showing different editions of the game including the 1911 first edition.	http://www.lasker-gesellschaft.de/archiv/2003/2003...	2009-01-20
"Das Säulenspiel Laska" by W. Angerstein	http://www.lasker-gesellschaft.de/archiv/2003/2003...	2009-01-19
Original 1911 booklet (rules and sample games) by Emanual Lasker	http://www.pjb.com.au/laska/laskers_rules.pdf	2009-01-19
Lasker's original paper, specifying the rules, with sample games	http://www.pjb.com.au/laska/laskers_rules.html	2009-01-12
History and rules in Polish	http://www.pionek.net/index.php?option=com_content...	2006-12-14
History, rules and strategies for the game	http://research.interface.co.uk/lasca/about.htm	2005-04-21