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MOVE
- All stones move as the chess Rook.
| CAPTURING - .When a player
sandwiches opponent's piece(s) by two of his own pieces, he captures the sandwiched
piece(s). A player can sandwich horizontally and vertically, but NOT diagonally.
| GOAL
- A player wins when the opponent has just one stone left.
| EDGES
- (optional rule) A stone at the edge of the board can be taken by two
adjacent pieces; i.e., a stone at a1 can be captured by two stones at a2 and b1.
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This type of capture is called custodian capture.
| An example
If it's Black turn, he may capture the white central stones by moving to [1]. The same happens to White, if he moves into [2]. |
There is an hexagonal variant for Hasami Shogi, called Take
(invented at 1984 by Mike
Woods), which is probably a better game.
Curiously, there is an old Roman game, called Latrunculi seemly very similar to Hasami Shogi, but the exact rules are not known.
A similar game is Mak-yek
played in Siam (and
Malaysia under the name Apit-sodok) with the same goal, on the same
board, but the 18 stones of each player are placed on the first and third
row. The moves are the same, but the capture is custodian and also by
intervention. Intervention capture is the opposite of custodian. If a stone
moves between two enemy stones, it captures both stones.
Another traditional game is Chiangmai Checkers from Thailand, where it is called Mhark Nheeb,
