The objective of this game is to remove all of your opponent's pieces from the board.
The game requires two players, a board, and thirty-two pieces. There should be two colors of pieces, sixteen pieces of each color.
For the rest of this document, we will assume that one color of pieces is black, and that the other color is white.
The board should be a grid of squares with eight squares on each side. You can use a board that is designed for the games of Go or Chess.
To set up the game, take the pieces of one color and lay eight of them on the squares of a row at the edge of the grid, one per square. This is the home row for that color. Place the remaining eight pieces on the row of squares in front of the first row of pieces.
Lay out the pieces of the other color on the opposite side of the board in the same way. Again, the row at the edge is the home row for that color.
Each player must choose one of the colors of playing piece. The player then controls the pieces of that color for the game.
The player for black takes the first turn of the game, and the player for white takes the second turn. Each player takes a turn in this order until the game ends.
On their turn a player must move one of their pieces, as explained in the next section.
You move a piece from one square to another on the board in a straight line, across the squares in between. You may move a piece over any number of squares. The line of movement can be either horizontal, vertical, or diagonal.
You may move a piece to a square that is already occupied by one of your opponent's pieces. If a piece moves on to an occupied square, the move ends on that square and the piece that currently occupies the square is removed from the board.
If you move one of your pieces on to a square on the home row of the opposing player and the square opposite it on your own home row is empty, place a new piece of your color on that square of your home row.
The game continues until one player loses, either by choosing to resign the game, or by having no more pieces on the board. The other player is the winner.