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Encyclopedia Britannica



SALTA (Italian for " jump!")

This article appears in Volume V24, Page 91 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SAC-SAR
SALTA (Italian for " jump!") , a table-game for two introduced at the end of the 19th
century
 , founded on the more ancient game of
Halma
 . It is played on a board containing loo squares, coloured alternately black and
white
 . Each player has a set of 15 pieces, one set being green, the other
pink
 . These are placed upon the black squares of the first three rows nearest the player, and are classified in these rows as stars, moons and suns. The pawns move forward one square at a time, except when a pawn is situated in front of a hostile piece with an unoccupied space on the further side, in which case the hostile pawn must be jumped, as at draughts, but without removing the jumped pawn from the board. The
object
  of the game is to get one's pieces on the exact squares corresponding to their own on the enemy's side, the stars in the
star
 -line, the moons in the moon-line, &c. Salta tournaments have taken place in which
chess
  masters of repute participated.
See Salta, by Schubert (
Leipzig
 , 1900).


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