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Quadriga - version Quatro vor IPC Quadriga  

The game's technical conditions:

• a board of 10 x 10 squares
• 4 knights - chessmen of different colours
• 100 identical pieces
• number of players: four

Initial conditions:

• all the pieces are placed on all the 100 squares
• each player has one chessman in a colour chosen or picked at random before
• the player who has drawn position number 1 starts the game taking off any piece and putting his chessman in its place, then, the players who have drawn positions 2, 3 and 4 do the same with their chessmen
• in his way, placing the four chessmen at the beginning of the game is absolutely arbitrary

Course of the game:

• starting from the places taken at the beginning, the chessmen move on the board in the way the knight does the players make subsequent moves in randomized order
• placing his chessman on a square, the player takes the piece off
• the chessman can be placed only on a square where there is still a piece
• squares without pieces are excluded from the further game and the players are eliminated one by one if they are not able make the next move
• the player who has made the last move is the winner
• the player who has won shall not make any other possible moves.

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