Chapay is a Russian game similar to shuffleboard played on a checkerboard.

I quote:

"The goal of the game is to sweep all opponent's checkers from the chessboard by flicking your own checkers.
Players make flicks by the turn. Red Army (what a surprise!) starts the game.
If you destroyed at least one opponent's checker without losing any of yours, you get an extra flick.
When all opponent's checkers are destroyed, winning army moves one line forward,
if the army wins without loss, it moves two lines forward.
The army which reaches the opposite side of the chessboard wins the game."

I found this game, in case you wondered, while searching for the world's largest game of Giant Pick Up Sticks. I learned that there was a game of "Monster Mikado" staged by Werner Holz where 41 eight-meter-long tree trunks were used instead of sticks and weighed around 3.5 tons. There happened to be a link on that page to the Wikipedia collection of Games of Physical Skill. And there, under "C," was Chapayev, Coconut shy, Cornhole (game), and Crud (game). For some reason only known to the gods of Internet randomness, I picked Chapayev.

And I was gladdened thereby, for it is just the kind of game, built on the combination of two other games, that reminds me and you so much of how Junkyard Sports are made. Inspiring, in its way, making you wonder about combining say shuffleboard with perhaps chinese checkers or football.

And a good game it is. One deserving of passionate Russian intensity. And you can even play it online.

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