Clobber

Overview
The Clobber is a two-player board game invented in 2001 by combinatorial game theorists Michael H. Albert, J.P. Grossman and Richard Nowakowski.

Board

The Clobber is played on a 5x6 board. Other sizes can also be used.

There are two players: White and Black.

The initial position of the checkers is the shown on the following picture:

 

Objective

The objective of the Clobber game is to be the one who makes the last possible move (i.e. the one who has no legal moves on his turn loses a game).

No draws are possible in Clobber.

Play

Players move alternatively, starting from the player controlling white checkers.

A player moves by choosing one of his checkers and "clobbering" an opponent's checker on a horizontally or vertically adjacent cell.
The "clobbered" checker is removed from the board and replaced by the player's checker that was moved.

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