Games of Soldiers

KANGA

Copyright (c) 2002 Tijn van der Zant, Marco Wiering

This game is played on a 7x7 square board (other dimensions are possible):

GROUP - A set of orthogonally connected stones of the same color (like in Go).

TURN - At each turn, each player drops a friendly stone on an empty cell.

A group with no adjacent empty cells is captured (there is no Ko rule).

A line with an odd number (>1) of stones of the same color can be captured in a custodian fashion, i.e., the line is captured when placed between two enemy stones (orthogonal or diagonal) or between an enemy stone and an edge.

GOAL - A player wins if he have a group adjacent to two opposite edges.

Some capture examples
These are some examples where the black stones would be captured if White played at [1].

An endgame
Black has already a winning position (even if it is White's turn). He just needs to drop at one of the [1] to create a group adjacent to two opposite edges.

The inspirational games where Go and Pente. Kanga is kind of Gonnect with custodian captures. Check the game's webpage.

	Some capture examples These are some examples where the black stones would be captured if White played at [1].
	An endgame Black has already a winning position (even if it is White's turn). He just needs to drop at one of the [1] to create a group adjacent to two opposite edges.