Desdemona társasjáték

Angol leírás

The game is played on a square board of sizes 7x7 or 8x8. There are two players, Black and White. Each player has two pieces in his color on 7x7, three on 8x8. There is a sufficient supply of bi-colored stones.

Setup

On 7x7 the pieces start on b2 and f2 for Black, b6, and f6 for White. On 8x8 it's a4, b2, and g2 for Black, b7, g7, and h5 for White.

Play
Black moves first. Turns then alternate. On his turn, a player must do one of two things

1. Move a pawn in a straight line across any number of empty squares (orthogonally or diagonally) ending the move on an empty square. Then place a stone on an empty square away in a straight line across any number of empty squares (orthogonally or diagonally) from the pawn that was last moved, or ...

2. Move a pawn in a straight line across any number of empty squares (orthogonally or diagonally) ending the move on an empty square adjacent to an opponent's stone. The piece and the stone now define a line (straight or diagonal). If the next square of that line, going in the direction of the stone, is vacant or the next squares hold same-colored stones followed by an empty square, then your stone is placed on that square, thus trapping the opponent's stone(s) between itself and the moving piece, and flipping them all over to the moving player's color.

Moving is compulsory, unless impossible, in which case a player must pass. If one player cannot move anymore, the other must proceed, but may only do so with capturing moves. The game ends when neither player can move.

The player with the most pieces on the board wins.