The KAbalone Handbook
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# Chapter 2. Rules of the Game

Red always moves first.

Two types of moves are allowed:

Normal

  One, two or three pieces of yours in a row can be moved be one in the 6 directions. Side moves are also allowed.

  Press the left mouse button on the first piece you want to move. The piece will then be highlighted. Now drag the mouse in the desired direction. If the move is valid, the cursor will change to an arrow in that direction and all the pieces of the move will be highlighted. If this is the move you want to draw, release the mouse button.

  Side moves are handled another way: For two adjacent pieces click between them and drag; for three pieces press the middle mouse button on the middle piece - if a side move is allowed for the pieces they will be highlighted. Otherwise only the middle one is highlighted and you draw a normal move.

Pushing

  You can push a maximum of two pieces of the opponent in front of your own pieces as long as the number of pieces you move is greater than the number of the opponent's pieces that you push. That means with three of your pieces you can push one or two of the opponent's and with two pieces one.

  Special pushing moves are those which push a piece of the opponent out of the board. If you have pushed six of your opponent's pieces out of the board you have won.

If you still do not know what KAbalone is all about, look at a game where the computer plays both sides. After executing KAbalone, select Settings->Computer plays->Both and start a new game.

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