Ugolki - halma

1. Take turns moving one piece horizontally or vertically (diagonally too in the diagonal variant).
2. Jump over any piece with an empty square behind it — chain as many jumps as you like.
3. Move all your pieces into the opponent's starting area first to win.
4. At move 80, whoever has more pieces in the opponent's camp wins.

Ugolki - halma turns board strategy into a race rather than a fight: there is no capturing at all, just a competition to be the first to move your entire set of pieces across the board into your opponent's starting corner. Because you cannot remove or block a piece the way checkers or chess allow, every advantage comes from route-finding — using your own pieces as stepping stones for long jump chains that cover much more ground than a single step ever could. Leaving a gap in your formation can hand your opponent a free jump lane straight through your side of the board, so protecting your structure matters as much as advancing it. The diagonal movement keeps the geometry simple, but planning a jump sequence that clears several pieces at once is where the real skill of the game lives.