2 players
Atlanbagj
- Game family
- diagonal
- Origin
- Turkey
Overview
Atlanbaj is a capturing game played in seventeenth century in the Ottoman Empire.
Source rules (English)
The game Atlanbagj is played by two players on a 8x8 rectangle board with square tiling. Regions: RegionP1: the bottom sites of the board for P1 RegionP2: the top sites of the board for P2 All players play with Counters and DoubleCounters. Players take turns moving. Setup: Place a Counter for player one at the bottom sites of the board expanded by 1 steps. Place a Counter for player two at the top sites of the board expanded by 1 steps.. Rules: If in the same turn, if Piece at the to location of the last move is equal to Counter of the moving player, if false then perform any of the following moves which has the most sub-moves hop forward, rightward or leftward then if can move hop forward, rightward or leftward, move again, else if the to location of the last move is in RegionP1 or RegionP2, a piece of the moving player the to location of the last move, this piece can promote into DoubleCounter, else if false then perform any of the following moves which has the most sub-moves hop the difference between directions orthogonal and DirectionChoice(OppositeDirection, ) then if can move hop the difference between directions orthogonal and DirectionChoice(OppositeDirection, ), move again, else moves with priority: if false then perform any of the following moves which has the most sub-moves move one of your pieces or move one of your pieces, move one of your pieces or move one of your pieces. Aim: If the next player cannot move, the moving player wins.