La Dama del nuovo Mondo?
Curiosità finale: si gioca partite sulla damiera 12×12 anche a Ceylon e in Malesia (in questo caso la fama della dama canadese sembrerebbe aver attraversato anche gli Oceani Pacifico e Indiano). Non c’è che dire, un gioco davvero global…
English version
In the mid-eighteenth century, during the colonization of what is considered by many to be the “homeland of ice hockey”, the French introduced the Checkers (albeit in their national variant). And, as often happened in many areas (from sport to culture, through economics and politics), the “sparkling” air of the New World has given rise to interesting variations on the theme. The flavor variant with maple syrup (national delicatesse) is played on a chessboard / board of 144 squares (12×12). The rules are the same as the international one, only that the match takes place on a wider “field”.
Its fame soon crossed, on the contrary, the Ocean (Atlantic) to the point that, in 1805, in some shops in London it was already possible to buy complete kits of Canadian Checkers. In 1875 a Montreal newspaper began to publish a column dedicated to combinations and in 1891, also in Montreal, was founded the organization of Canadian checkers players during the first national championship. The Canadian variant of the popular game is widespread especially among the French-speaking population of Canada which, as is known, is divided between French and English speakers.
Just a curiosity: you play games on the 12×12 sheet also in Ceylon and Malaysia (in this case the fame of the Canadian lady seems to have also crossed the Pacific and Indian Oceans). No doubt about it, a truly global game …
Il video di International Checkers…
Traduzione in latinorun per gioco (by Google Translator)
In medium-octavodecimo saeculo in coloniam deductam late considerandum quid per “glaciem hockey patria”, in ludo de dama introduxerunt Galli (vel in patria sua variante). Atque ita ut saepe accidit, ut multis in locis (a ludis et culturae et oeconomica in rei publicae): per “candenti” variationes ubi thema curiosus aer ex Novus Orbis Terrarum dedit vitae. Quod variation contextus acernis staret ad gustum surrepo (CUPPEDIUM nationalibus) ludeturit super tabula / Damiera de CXLIV casellis (12×12). Regit idem sint unum sicut et internationalis, quod modo par agit in “agrum” latius patet.
Transiens opinio potius oceanus (Atlanticum) eousque in MDCCCV aliquo possit emere Canadensis poculaque tabernas tota Londini erat rhoncus. In diurna Regius MDCCCLXXV et coepit evulgaret in columna dicata combinationum et in MDCCCXCI, et in Montrealensi, Canadae damisti condita est ordo, primum in nationalibus patrocinium. In Canadiensi variante inter praecipue damisti, longe lateque afficere Francophoni populatio Canadae, quae est, ut dictum est, dividitur inter Francophones et Anglophones.
Ultima curiositas vos ludere ludos elit et in 12×12 Damiera et in Taprobane Insula (et in hoc casu de Canadian dominae fama videtur et non est transgressus Pacificum, et Indicum). Dicere fas est, a global ludum vere …
Photo by Luigi Viazzo with Samsung Galaxy S3