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Continuing the Game
Play now continues according to the following rule:
When it is his turn, a player places a piece on the board in such a
way that one or more pieces of the opposite colour are enclosed, in
an unbroken straight line, between this new piece and another of
the player’s own colour.
The line of pieces may be horizontal, vertical or diagonal.
In the left-hand diagram above, black can insert a piece at the
square marked
, so that the adjacent white piece is “sandwiched”
between the two black ones in the horizontal row. Black could also
play at any of the squares marked
. In the right-hand diagram
above, he can play at any of the
squares. The piece of the
opposing colour, “sandwiched” between the player’s new and old
pieces, is flipped over to show the same colour as the two pieces
enclosing it.
In the left-hand diagram below, black may play at the
square.
Then three white pieces are enclosed in an unbroken vertical line
between the new black piece and one that was there already. The 3
white pieces are all flipped over, so that their black side is showing;
they are “captured”, but they remain on the board.
