Talk:Ludus latrunculorum

message: I'm hoping somebody can clarify a game scenario for me, possibly amending the proposed rules to deal with it.  If X's represent black, and O's represent white, and .'s represent spaces, if you have
..X.XO..
and white moves so that you have
..XOXO..
what happens?  Both the inner O and X are surrounded.  Is it an illegal move?  Which piece(s) is/are captured?
68.46.236.112 05:27, 24 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Capture question 

message: I have Board and Table Games from Many Civilizations, and have altered the proposed rules in the article to bring them into conformity with Bell's text, which they claim to follow.  I am troubled by the claim that the commonest board size is 8x12.  In all my dissipated years I have never heard of a Roman-era board that size.  The link that is supposed to support the statement is dead.  Please bring a better support. J S Ayer (talk) 03:43, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Conjectural rules 

message: Wladyslaw Jan Kowalski's page on ludus latrunculorum has been moved to
http://www.aerobiologicalengineering.com/wxk116/Roman/BoardGames/latruncu.html
J S Ayer (talk) 04:22, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kowalski's Site 

message: A section on the archaeological remains of likely examples would be a nice addition. Cynwolfe (talk) 21:39, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I have added a reference to Mackubin Thomas Owens' article in the Wall Street Journal, because it gives good information on the origin of the word latrunculi ("pirates, robbers, brigands and outlaws") as well their status within Roman jurisprudence. Asteriks (talk) 12:24, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Archaeological evidence 

message: A contributor inserted this into the text below Bell's conjectural rules:
(Needs clarification:  "If no captures are made in thirty moves, the game is ended, and the player with more pieces on the board wins." - If no captures are made, how can either player have more pieces than the other?)
This assumes that after the two forces have engaged, and captures have been made, a period of thirty moves might go by without either player making another capture.  By this time the forces on the board would probably be considerably reduced, and if no further captures are made in that period, perhaps the game is pretty much played out.  If they can go thirty moves into a game and neither make a capture, they should probably go do something else.  I think this would be clear to a large enough proportion of the population that clarification is not needed. J S Ayer (talk) 22:49, 1 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bell's rules 

message: * "Ra's conjectural rules" were inserted in this edit. Who is Ra here? Should it be R.A., someone's initials? Or what? Anthony Appleyard (talk) 10:54, 22 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ra's conjectural rules 

message: A new section says that the Korean game of Gonu is like ludus lantrunculorum.  The statement is linked to an article in the Korean Wikipedia, and the diagrams do not inspire confidence in the comparison.  Unless we get some details backing up the claim, I will probably delete this section as at best useless. J S Ayer (talk) 03:37, 18 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gonu 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: The article says that "In the Phaedrus, Plato writes that these games come from Egypt, and a draughts-like game called Seega is known to have been played in ancient Egypt." However, :wikisource:Phaedrus doesn't seem to mention this. Is the article wrong, or have I failed to locate the relevant information in the Phaedrus text? This would be amazing information for the Seega (game)#History section. Thanks! Mateussf (talk) 21:51, 22 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Phaedrus 

message: The article currently references ref name="Schädler, Ulrich 1994" twice, the full bibliographic info given is:
* Schädler, Ulrich; Latrunculi, A forgotten Roman game of strategy reconstructed; in Homo Ludens. Der spielende Mensch IV, 1994, 47-66. http://history.chess.free.fr/papers/Schadler%202001.pdf
The URL points to a short English article in which Schädler provides a rules reconstruction, it was published in Abstract Games, Issue 7 (Autumn 2001), pp. 10-11 under the title listed. However, the location given (Homo Ludens. Der spielende Mensch IV, 1994, pp. 47-66 leads us to a different paper by the same author, Latrunculi - ein verlorenes strategisches Brettspiel der Römer which Schädler uploaded to both
academia.edu and researchgate.net. While it's reasonable to assume that the English 2001 publication is mostly similar in its conclusion to the German 1994 publication, it's still unfortunate to conflate the two papers in such a way. The simplest solution would be to just remove the URL and replace the English title with the German title. However, I'm not sure which publication was actually used by the person who entered the reference - did they check the German paper or only the shorter English article? How should this best be handled? Should we disentangle the two publications and reference them both? Jonas kork (talk) 12:02, 24 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  U. Schädler 1994/2001