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Pretwa is a two-player abstract strategy game from Bihar, India, and it was described by H.J.R. Murray in A History of Board-Games Other Than Chess (1952).[1][2] The game is related to draughts and Alquerque as pieces are captured by leaping over them. The board is composed of three concentric circles divided by three diameters. Pretwa belongs to a category of games called Indian war games, which also includes the games Lau kata kati, Dash-guti, Egara-guti, Gol-skuish. All Indian war games have one important thing in common, and that is that all the pieces are laid out on the board at every intersection point, with the exception of the central point. This forces the first move to be played on the central point, and captured by the other player's piece.
Pretwa is a smaller version of the game Gol-skuish.
- ^ Murray, H.J.R. (1952). A History of Board-Games Other Than Chess. New York: Hacker Art Books, Inc. p. 71. ISBN 0-87817-211-4.
- ^ Winther, Mats. "Indian War-games". Indian War-games. Retrieved 2016-06-29.