Chart 471 - Indian Games 1

Indian Games 1 Chart

Spectrum Chart - 471 : Indian Games 1

1. Chess – Chess is a board game for two players. It is played on a square board, made of 64 smaller squares, with eight squares on each side. Each player starts with sixteen pieces: eight pawns, two knights, two bishops, two rooks, one queen and one king. Chess is believed to have originated in Eastern India in 6^th century AD.

2. Gilli Danda – Gilli-Danda is an amateur sport played in the rural areas and small towns all over India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Afghanistan and Pakistan. The game is played with two sticks: a large one called a danda, which is used to hit a smaller one, the gilli. Gilli Danda is an ancient sport of India, possibly with origins over 2500 years ago. It is believed to be the origin of Western games such as cricket & baseball.

3. Langdi – Langdi is a traditional Indian field sport, similar to hopscotch. Langdi in Maharashtra is a popular childhood pastime. Langdi is a team sport between two sides, played 12 players a side, and an additional three extra players. A match lasts 36 minutes. It is played in four innings of nine minutes each.

4. Kalaripayattu - Kalaripayattu is considered to be one of the oldest fighting systems in existence. It is now practised in Kerala, in contiguous parts of Tamil Nadu and Delhi. It was originally practised in northern and central parts of Kerala and the Tulunadu region of Karnataka. Kalaripayattu techniques are a combination of steps and postures. Each stance has its own style, power combination, function and effectiveness. These techniques vary from one style to another.

5. Hockey – Hockey is a team sports which can be played on a grass field or a turf field as well as an indoor board surface. Each team plays with eleven players including the goalie. Players use sticks made out of wood, carbon fibre, fibre glass etc to hit a round, hard, rubber like ball. It is an Olympic sports. India has won the maximum 8 gold medal in Olympic games.

6. Kho Kho - Kho kho is a tag sport from the Indian subcontinent. It is played by teams of twelve players, of which nine enter the field, who try to avoid being touched by members of the opposing team. A match consists of two innings with each inning consisting of chasing and running turns of 9 minutes each. One team sits/kneels in the middle of the court, in a row, with adjacent members facing opposite directions. The runners take to the field, 3 at a time and the team that takes the shortest time to tag/tap all the opponents in the field, wins.

7. Chaupat (Pachisi) – Chaupat or Pachisi is a cross and circle board game that originated in ancient India. It is played on a board shaped like a symmetrical cross. A player's pieces move around the board based upon a throw of six or seven cowrie shells, with the number of shells resting with aperture upwards indicating the number of spaces to move. It is a game for two, three or four players, four usually play in two teams. One team has yellow and black pieces, the other team has red and green. The team which moves all its pieces to the finish first, wins the game.

8. Skipping Rope – A skipping rope or jump rope is a tool used in the activity of skipping played by children and many young adults, where one or more participants jump over a rope swung so that it passes under their feet and over their heads. There are few variations of the activity. The most basic involves a single participant turning and jumping the rope. A long rope involves a minimum of three participants, two of whom turn the rope while one or more jump.

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