A chessboard
Tabula, a game of strategy and fortune, originated in the ancient Rome and diffused among the Roman legions; it was called also Alea or Game of the 12 Rows. The English backgammon derived from that.
The chessboard has dihedral symmetry of type D1.
From the exhibition "Jogos do mundo", Covilhan, September 2004.
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* (D1) (Symmetry)
From the exhibition "Jogos do mundo", Covilhã, 2004 (Other exhibitions around the world)
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