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checkermen the game may be played quite as well as with the ornate pieces used
upon Mars.
THE BOARD: Square board consisting of one hundred alternate black and orange
squares.
THE PIECES: In order, as they stand upon the board in the first row, from left to
right of each player.
Warrior: 2 feathers; 2 spaces straight in any direction or combination.
Padwar: 2 feathers; 2 spaces diagonal in any direction or combination.
Dwar: 3 feathers; 3 spaces straight in any direction or combination.
Flier: 3 bladed propellor; 3 spaces diagonal in any direction or combination; and
may jump intervening pieces.
Chief: Diadem with ten jewels; 3 spaces in any direction; straight or diagonal or
combination.
Princess: Diadem with one jewel; same as Chief, except may jump intervening
pieces.
Flier: See above.
Dwar: See above.
Padwar: See above.
Warrior: See above.
And in the second row from left to right:
Thoat: Mounted warrior 2 feathers; 2 spaces, one straight and one diagonal in
any direction.
Panthans: (8 of them): 1 feather; 1 space, forward, side, or diagonal, but not
backward.
Thoat: See above.
The game is played with twenty black pieces by one player and twenty orange by
his opponent, and is presumed to have originally represented a battle between
the Black race of the south and the Yellow race of the north. On Mars the board
is usually arranged so that the Black pieces are played from the south and the
Orange from the north.
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