Five Field Kono
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Five Field Kono is a Korea
n abstract strategy game
. As in Chinese checkers
, a player wins by moving all of their pieces into the starting locations of their opponent's pieces.
Korea
Korea ) is an East Asian geographic region that is currently divided into two separate sovereign states — North Korea and South Korea. Located on the Korean Peninsula, Korea is bordered by the People's Republic of China to the northwest, Russia to the northeast, and is separated from Japan to the...
n abstract strategy game
Abstract strategy game
An abstract strategy game is a strategy game, aiming to minimise luck, and without a theme. Almost all abstract strategy games will conform to the strictest definition of: a board or card game, in which there is no hidden information, no non-deterministic elements , in which two players or teams...
. As in Chinese checkers
Chinese checkers
Chinese checkers is a board game that can be played by two, three, four, or six people, playing individually or with partners...
, a player wins by moving all of their pieces into the starting locations of their opponent's pieces.
Rules
The players take turns moving one of their pieces one square diagonally. The first player to move all of their pieces to their opponent's starting squares wins.External links
- Five Field Kono applet
- Five Field Kono at Zillions of GamesZillions of GamesZillions of Games is a commercial General Game Playing system developed by Jeff Mallett and Mark Lefler in 1998. The game rules are specified with S expressions, Zillions rule language. It was designed to handle mostly abstract strategy board games or puzzles. After parsing the rules of the game,...