Corners — Strategy

Notation

The board is marked as in checkers: columns are letters a–h from left to right, rows are numbers 1–8 from the bottom. Square a1 is white's corner, h8 is black's. On the 16×16 Halma board columns run to p and rows to 16.

A move is written as the path of the piece with dashes:

• c3-d3 — a step to a neighbouring square;
• c3-e3 — a jump over the piece on d3;
• c3-e3-e5-g5 — a chain of three jumps.

At the table moves are listed in pairs: the move number, then white's move and black's move — 12. c3-e3-e5 f6-e6. Clicking a move in the list shows the position after it; "Back to the game" returns to the live board.

In the topics below "forward" means "towards the opponent's home": up and to the right for white, down and to the left for black.