The objective is to either capture or immobilize all the enemies stones. The principle of play is to surround an enemy on two sides, in a horizontal or vertical line. Black plays first. Dogs move as rooks in chess; orthogonally (horizontal or vertical, but not diagonal). The Dog never can slide over the sacred line (the fields in the middle) with there dogs. A Dog is captured when it is surrounded on two orthogonal sides. Multiple stones can not be captured when surrounded on two orthogonal sides. A stone can be played inside two enemy stones without being captured. The outside walls cannot be used to capture Dogs.
 
First player to kill all his opponents Dogs wins.
A player can also win by blocking up the enemy Dogs such that they cannot move.
 
 
This game was invented by Uwe Wiedemann in 2001. This game combines the reconstruction of Wally J. Kowalsky with some idea of Machattscheck's Petteia-Halma. We use an ancient greek board which is also used in Petteia-Halma.
Wiedemann has added a rule to the reconstruction of Kowalsky that the player never can slide over the sacred line (the fields in the middle) with there dogs. Similar to the Petteia reconstructions of Wiedemann begins in this variant of Petteia the black player.