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The Breakthrough is played on a common 8x8 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:

The objective of the Breakthrough game is to reach the opposite row with one of player's checkers.

No draws are possible in Breakthrough.

Players move alternatively, starting from the player controlling white checkers (according to the original rules the first player is chosen randomly).

A checker can be moved one cell straight or diagonally forward if the destination cell is empty:

The white and the black checkers
can move to the highlighted cells.

A checker can move into a cell that is occupied by opponent's checker if and only if that cell is one step diagonally forward. The opponent's checker is removed and the player's checker replaces it.

The white checker can capture
any of the shown black checkers.

• Breakthrough rules and history on Wikipedia.