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Lau kata kati is a two-player abstract strategy game from India, specifically from Lower Bengal, and also from United Provinces, Karwi Subdivision where it is called Kowwu Dunki.[1] The game is related to draughts and even more so to Alquerque.
Pieces are captured by leaping over them. The board is a pattern of two
triangles joined together at a common vertex with further lines
subdividing them. It is the same game as Butterfly (game)
from Mozambique, which suggests a historical connection between the two
games. Lau kata kati belongs to a specific category of games called
Indian War-games, and the other games in this category are Dash-guti, Egara-guti, Pretwa, Gol-skuish.[1]
All Indian War-games have one important thing in common, and that is
that all the pieces are laid out on the patterned board, with only one
vacant point in the center.[1] This forces the first move to be played on the central point, and captured by the other player's piece.[1]
It is important to realize that Lau kata kati's patterned board is
the basis of other games, in particular, Dash-guti and Egara-guti, as
the boards of those two games are an expansion. It serves as a basis for
other games in the same way that the standard Alquerque board and the
draughts board is a basis for other games.
