Win by moving a stone to the opposite home space to be promoted to a king and then move the king back to your home space. Both players have six pieces. The White player starts from the left end of the board and can move his stones east, northeast and southeast and capture by replacement northeast and southeast. A king moves to the opposite directions. The Black player starts from the right end of the board and can move stones west, northwest and southwest and capture northwest and southwest and kings to the opposite directions. Captures are not mandatory. The player can either move a piece or drop a new one on his own home space. This game is a variant of Tyska Torget on Hageby board and was inspired by W.D.Troyka's outstanding games Ugly Duck Breakthrough and Zonesh. Holmen is an island in the Motala River where the old and beautiful factories from the early industrial era were build in my beloved Norrköping, Sweden. |