Bao la Kiswahili

Тип игра: Four-row traditional mancala without stores; 2 players, 8 pits per rank; two distinct phases (opening seed-introduction namu followed by open-board mtaji relay sowing); front-row adversarial captures only.

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Преглед

Celebrated across the Swahili coast as the supreme intellectual contest of the Indian Ocean littoral, Bao la Kiswahili (from the Swahili word bao, meaning "board") stands among the most sophisticated abstract strategy games ever devised.Long rooted in the maritime cultures of the Bajun, the Swahili city-states, Zanzibar, coastal Tanzania and Kenya, and the Comoro Islands, the tradition also reaches inland Muslim commercial hubs, the Sakalava communities of northwestern Madagascar, the Yao of Malawi (who revere it as Bawo), and inland outposts from Kisangani in DR Congo to Bujumburaв Бурунди.French colonial chronicler Étienne de Flacourt recorded an early Sakalava variant known as Fifangha as far back as 1658, while English Orientalist Thomas Hyde observed it on Anjouan in 1694. The British Museum preserves the oldest surviving physical specimen—a finely carved Malawian board dating to 1896. Renowned for its demanding multi-lap cascades, shifting tactical tempos, and strict capture imperatives, the game was a lifelong passion of Tanzania’s founding father, Mwalimu Julius Nyerere, as well as Zanzibar’s first president, Abeid Amani Karume.

Дъска

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Как се играе

Наму Етап

nyumba

nyumba

Етап Мтаджи

kichwa

namu

takata:

Пленяване

Край на играта и победа

Играчът печели или чрез "Bao hamna", което е улавяне на всички семена от първия ред на опонента, или като остави опонента си само сингълтони, така че да не може да се движи.

Забележки

Source: Mancala World – Bao la Kiswahili