Objective

• A player wins by capturing all opponent's pieces or if the opponent can not perform a legal move on his turn.
• On agreement or if the same game situation repeats three times the game is draw.

Moving

• Men move forward only. Thus following the algebraic notation of the diagram
  • red men move either
    • in direction of smaller numbers or
    • preceeding letters (alphabetical order) or
    • both at once, while
  • white men move either
    • in direction of higher numbers or
    • suceeding letters or
    • both at once.

Sample moves: Red man can move to positions indicated by '#', while white man can move to '+'

          .
        .   .
      .   .   .
    .   .   .   .
  .   .   .   .   .
 9  .   .   .   .  i
  .   r   .   .   .
 8  #   #   .   .  h
  .   #   .   .   .
 7  .   .   +   .  g
  .   .   +   +   .
 6  .   .   w   .  f
  .   .   .   .   .
 5  .   .   .   .  e
   4  .   .   .  d
     3  .   .  c
       2  .  b
         1 a

Promotion to King

• On reaching the rows at the opposite edge of the board at conclusion of a move it promotes to king. This is indicated by stacking a second checker of same color on top. In order to promote, a man must end its move on a square of the back rank. If a man, in the course of a capture, visits a cell of the back rank without ending its move on it, it does not promote!

Red men get promoted when reaching any of the nine positions indicated '#' at conclusion of red's move.
White men get promoted when reaching any of the nine positions indicated '+' at conclusion of white's move.

          +
        +   +
      +   .   +
    +   .   .   +
  +   .   .   .   +
 9  .   .   .   .  i
  .   .   .   .   .
 8  .   .   .   .  h
  .   .   .   .   .
 7  .   .   .   .  g
  .   .   .   .   .
 6  .   .   .   .  f
  #   .   .   .   #
 5  #   .   .   #  e
   4  #   .   #  d
     3  #   #  c
       2  #  b
         1 a

• Thus
  • the last rows at the edge of the board for white consists of fields from e9 to i9 followed by i9 to i5, while
  • the last rows at the edge of the board for red consists of fields from a5 to a1 followed by a1 to e1.

Capturing

• Men can capture an adjacent opponent's piece (man or king) by jumping over it following a straight line onto the empty field directly behind the opponent's piece.
• Capturing is compulsory, including making chained jumps if available. Thus men's turn may consist in chained jumps.
• If more than one capture move is available in a player's turn then it is obligatory to select the capturing move resulting in capturing the maximum amount of the opponent's pieces (men or kings).
• If optional chained capturing might capture same amount, the player may choose.
• Men are non flying. Thus they can only capture an opponent's piece adjacent to their own position.
• Kings are flying. They may move over any amount of empty fields or capture a piece in any amount of empty fields' distance away as long as the adjacent field behind the captured piece is empty. Anyway if a king captures, it may land on any empty field immediately behind or following empty fields in straight line of the captured piece unless it is required to stop on a specific field in order to continue jumping according to the rule of capturing maximum amount of opponent's pieces.
• Any capture move may be performed by men or kings in any direction - forwards or backwards.
• Each jump is performed in a straight line over any single opponent's piece. The adjacent field behind the pieces captured must be free.
• A possible chained jump can consist of single jumps having a combination of same or even different directions.
• In a chained capture move opponent's pieces are removed only after capturing is complete.
• During a chained capture a piece may not be jumped more than once. But it is allowed to revisit or jump over any empty field multiple times then.
• There is no breezing as a penalty for captures that are not performed.