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Mongol chess
Shatar or Mongolian chess is considered to be the king of the board games. It needs keen intelligence, creative thinking, and patience; chess is a type of intellectual sport. There is even a folk saying that chess players live longer. Although there is no official affirmation of this, it is said that chess originated in Mongolia in the period of the Huns. Mongolian chess is one of the various board games that are part of the intellectual fund of humanity that has been shaped by nomadic Mongolians. In terms of figures, terms, and movements, Mongolian chess is distinctive from European chess and its theme is more closely linked to the herding livelihood. Rather than themes of armies and war, Mongolian chess manifests the peace-loving mentality of animal farming people. Mongolian chess also contains a complex of figures representing various animals, well-known wrestlers, archers, soldiers, herders and other kinds of celebrities.
Mongolia -
CHOYKHONA
Tea house, a social environment for drinking tea, eating and relaxing. In Tajikistan, old people usually visit tea houses. They drink tea, talk to each other, and play board games such as chess, backgammon, and cards. Some tea houses are visited by folk musicians and singers, storytellers. In Rasht, Tojikibod and Lakhsh districts, teahouses also serve as a hotel for invited guests coming to a wedding celebration. Some guests can stay and spend the night during their visit.
Tajikistan -
KORDCHABOZI
This game is played by teenagers with simple knife, they throw the knife to a wood board.
Tajikistan -
Knucklebone shooting
There are over 120 different types of knucklebone games are played in Mongolia, and the “knucklebone shooting” is the most common spread one among the general public. The Knucklebone shooting is a traditional game that contains the traditional custom and culture in complex way. Shooting tablets are flicked towards 30 pieces of ''Khasaa'', a target laid on a zurkhai (wooden surface) in a given order depending on the current game, at a distance of 9 elbows (4.72meters). It is a team game that each team competes by shooting to knock down more of the khasaa than the other. During tournaments, shooters communicate not in words, but by singing ''Knucklebone Shooting'' melodies and tunes such as ''Hail you, friend',' ''Hit the target,'' ''Hail the board'' that sound more or less like ''Long Songs''.
Mongolia 2014 -
Traditional intelligence and strategy game: Togyzqumalaq, Toguz Korgool, Mangala/Göçürme
Mangala/Göçürme is a traditional game which can be played on special boards or improvised ones such as pits on the ground. The game can be played with pellets made of stone, wood, metal and bone, nuts, or seeds, which are distributed across the pits; the player who gathers the most pellets wins the game. There are several variations of the game. For example, the board can have two, three, four, six or nine pits arranged in order according to the number of players, and the duration varies according to the number of players.
Kyrgyzstan,Kazakhstan,Turkey 2020 -
SHOHMOTBOZI, shatranjbozi
Chess – a kind of traditional board games. Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. Chess is worldwide game for both amateurs and professionals.
Tajikistan -
NARDBOZI
Backgammon game. A old kind of sport of the Tajik people. Board game for two players on a special board, divided into two halves. The goal - to roll the dice and moving the checkers in accordance with dropped points, to go full circle checkers around the board, they come into another player’s home and throw them to the board before it will make the opponent.
Tajikistan -
Congkak
Congkak is one of the traditional games that develop according to era evolution, believed to be brought into the Malay archipelago via India. Congkak is well-known in Kedah, Kelantan and Johor. The name was so given as it was first played using clam shells or “congkak”. The main tools are the game board and the game pieces. The game board is usually made from the thick stem of a tree measuring 80cm to 1 meter in length and 18cm to 20cm in width. The board is shaped like a boat with the top part having two rows of holes. Each row has five or seven holes 6cm each in diameter. These smaller holes are known as ‘kampung’ or ‘village’. At the end of the rows of smaller holes is a bigger hole 14cm in diameter, one each on the left and right. These bigger holes are named ‘rumah’ or ‘house’. Congkak is played by two people in rounds and the total number of rounds depends on the agreed terms established by both players. The goal of this game is to end the game before the opponent and to obstruct the opponent from playing the game continuously.
Malaysia -
Traditional intelligence and strategy game: Toguz Korgool
Toguz Korgool is a traditional Kyrgyz board game played with nine small pellets. It is an intellectual game which belongs to the family of mangala games. Back in the day, Kyrgyz people played it without a board. Players would make dents on the ground and use dry sheep droppings as pellets, hence the name. Currently, players use small pellets made out of stone, wood or other material. The game enhances logical and analytical thinking as well as counting skills. That is why this game is often referred to as “herders’ algebra”. One game can last up to 4-5 hours. A player use basic four mathematical operations such as addition, subtraction, division and multiplication. The success in the game depends not only on math skills but also on tactics. Back in the day each pellet symbolized a warrior. The board consist of 9 niches for each player as well as two big niches to collect appropriated pellets. There are 162 pellets. To flag the trump niche players use special signs. Two stones of different shape or color can be used as those signs. The board is divided into two parts, namely, the black (dark) and white (light) sides. Modern boards assign numbers to the niches from 1 to 9 from left to right. In a traditional version, each niche has a name (different regions have their own names for those niches): 1 — tail (kuiruk) 2 — horse wouldn't pass over it (at ötpös) 3 — bad house (jaman ui) 4 — shoulder (daly) 5 — lower back (bel) 6 — white armpit (ak koltuk) 7 — double-toothed (eki tishti) 8 — blue neck (kök moyun) 9 — mouth (ooz)
Kyrgyzstan 2020