Etymology

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Today it means: A strategy game for two players, areas of the board being captured by surrounding rows of the opponent's pieces with one's own. Full definition →

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(board game): So named because the playing pieces have two differently colored sides, which are reversed when captured to indicate that they are now the capturer's.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.