Breakthrough

Breakthrough is an abstract strategy board game invented by Dan Troyka in 2000. The board has 8x8 tiles and is initially set up with 16 white pieces on the first two rows and 16 black pieces on the last two rows.A piece may move into a square containing an opponent's piece if and only if that square is one step diagonally forward. The opponent's piece is removed and the player's piece replaces it. The first player to reach the opponent's home row — the one farthest from the player — is the winner. If all the pieces of a player are captured, that player loses. A draw is impossible because pieces can only move ahead (or be captured), and the piece closest to the opponent's home row always has at least one forward diagonal move available.