Earlier I said, “Players take turns placing either a peg or a block almost anywhere on the board.” There are a few prohibited moves. One of them is the center position at the first move of the game. This is because on small boards playing the first piece to the center position gives that player an unfair advantage over his oponent. Another prohibited move is illustrated here.
This is the board as it was left after the last post. Light has just played, capturing Dark’s peg and removing it from the board.
Dark hopes to repair the damage of Light’s last move by playing a dark peg back into position A. This would be a prohibited move because…
the dark peg is immediately considered captured and removed from the board. This is often called the suicide move since Dark loses a peg without any action from Light.
If the suicide move were not prohibited, the board would look like this. Light has gained one captured peg and it is still his turn. (There is an exception to this situation. Stay tuned.)
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