OLD - Magnetic Ard Rí Board

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Ard Rí, meaning "High King" in Gaelic, is a Scottish tafl variant played on a 7×7 board, featuring a king and eight defenders battling against sixteen attackers.

Can be Converted into Brandub by printing 12 white tiles

Can be Converted into Magpie by printing 12 white tiles

Suggested Rules - 

Setup

• Defenders - Place the king on the central square, surrounded by his defenders on the squares  sharing the same color.
• Attackers - Position the attackers on the squares sharing the same color.
• The attackers move first

Movement

• All pieces move along rows or columns any number of spaces, but cannot jump over or land on other pieces. (like a Rook in Chess)
• Only the king may occupy the central square or any of the corner squares.

Capturing

• A piece is captured by sandwiching it between two of your own pieces on opposite sides along a row or column. The captured piece is immediately removed from the board.
• It is possible to capture multiple pieces in a single move; all such pieces are removed at once.
• A piece can also be captured against an empty corner square or the central square, as though one of your pieces occupied it.

Winning the Game - Attackers -  Capturing the King

• The king is captured by surrounding him on all four sides.

Winning the Game - Defenders

• The defenders win if they successfully move the king to one of the four marked corner squares.
• The attackers win by capturing the king before he escapes.

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