John Lawson wrote on Sat, Mar 27, 2004 02:55 AM UTC:
I dug out my copy of 'Abbott's New Card Games' (1963, Funk and Wagnalls)
and the suicide rule is stated thus:
'A piece that is immobilized does have one special move that it can make,
that of suicide. A player may use a turn to remove from the board one of
his own pieces that is immobilized.'