Outside of Sápmi, what is speculated to be a sáhkku king has been found in Spitzbergen (1890), although this piece could also be a chess king. It has, however, been documented by V. Carlheim-Gyllensköld (cited by researcher Peter Michaelsen) that Russians in Spitzbergen did indeed play sáhkku in the 1890s. This variant employed 2*13 soldiers and one king, on a board with 3*13 lines. Uniquely, they also used six-sided dice. One of the sides was marked “X”, one was blank, and the remaining sides marked with strokes (I-II-III-IIII). The “X” was referred to by the Russians as "sakko", a name confirming that these Russians had indeed learnt the game from the Sámi, or alternately that they themselves were Russian Sámi.