Bushka

Bushka

Designer: Christiaan Freeling
Publisher: MindSports
Type: Abstract
Status: Free
BGG entry: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/18922
Available at: http://www.mindsports.net/Arena/Bushka/

Here's the odd one out in the Draughts family - not draughts at all really, more of an adopted species. Bushka's way of capture originates in Fanorona, a game from Madagascar. The rules of Fanorona can be found in many books on abstract games. Bushka basically employs the idea of linear-movement and linear-capture to translate the idea of capture by contact into a draughts-like framework. I consider Bushka to be a draughts game the same way I consider an electric car to be a car. It's essentially the same vehicle powered by a different engine. Bushka looks like a draughts game and behaves like a draughts game. I wouldn't mind a new class of 'Contact Draughts' games, of which Bushka is the first representative.