Elasta

Elasta

Designer: Michail Antonow
Publisher: About.com: 2003 Simultaneous Movement Game Design Competition
Type: Abstract
Status: Free
Available from: http://boardgames.about.com/library/games/on/bl-simul-elasta.htm

Equipment:

• A chess board or any square board of 8 x 8 squares
• Eight short sticks, slightly shorter than the sides of a square (matches or the like)
• Eight chips (disks as used in Backgammon or Checkers) of one color for each player, marked with numbers from 0 to 7 on the face side
• In addition for the optional variant: about 40 small tokens or coins

The players take place at opposite sides of the board, as in chess. The eight sticks symbolizing the Battle Line are placed on the borders separating rank 4 from rank 5.

The aim of each player is to push the Battle Line forward untill it reaches the opponent's ground line.

The basic mechanism in this game was also used in Antonow's commercial game Caribbean.

An entry into the About.com: 2003 Simultaneous Movement Game Design Competition.