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-The Object of the Game


The Object of the game is pretty simple. The king of the red team has to get to one of the four corner squares. And the green team has to stop that by capturing the king. And note that these four corners are restricted squares, they can only be occupied by the king.

All the pieces move the same as a Rooks in chess. They can move as many squares as desired in either the horizontal or vertical directions, no diagonals. Of course they can't move through other pieces or hop over pieces. And the king also moves this same way, all the pieces.


-Removing an opponents piece from the board.

You do this by flanking the piece -getting a piece on opposite sides of an opposing piece. Here you see the two green pieces have flanked a red piece. The red piece is now removed from the board.
And if you flank the king the green player has won the game.

But that center square on the board is called "the Throne". To capture the king on that square it has to be flanked in all four directions as shown in this picture.

And the four corner squares can only be occupied by the king. But these squares are considered hostile squares to both teams. So, this square can be used to flank and remove a piece. The picture here shows that the green piece has been flanked by the red piece and the hostile corner. The green piece is now removed from the board.


-One more rule about hostile squares and you have the complete set of rules.

The throne (the square in the exact center where the king sits) is always hostile to the attackers, but only hostile to the defenders when it is empty.