The loop-capture game of Java: capture through the corner arcs. Move pieces one step in any direction. Capture by routing your path through one or more of the eight corner loop arcs that extend outside the grid boundary. First player to capture all twelve opponent pieces wins.
Every rule of Surakarta below is frontmatter in the rules corpus, played by the chess plugin. The board beside each is the game itself, live.
Move pieces one step in any direction. Capture by routing your path through one or more of the eight corner loop arcs that extend outside the grid boundary. First player to capture all twelve opponent pieces wins.
engine:
topology:
type: grid
rows: 6
cols: 6
layout: intersections
players: [white, black]
plugin: chess
plugins:
surakarta:
castling: false
enPassant: false
noCheck: true
stalemateMeaning: loss
quietLimit:
plies: 100
decide: material
pieces:
stone:
divergent:
move:
type: rider
dirs: all
maxSteps: 1
capture:
type: rail
# …Surakarta (Standard)
Every Surakarta variant is playable against the AI or another player.