READ THE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST! Summary: Quadrants is a strategic 2-player board game that requires lots of foresight, anticipating, with a mixture of offense and defense required. This board game, yet simple to learn, requires complex thinking and strategic play, in order to outmaneuver your opponent to achieve victory. Setup: Quadrants is played on a 6x6 checkerboard, with two colored chips (red and blue) sitting on opposite sides of the checkerboard. Each player has 12 chips each in total. Players set up their chips on the bottom 2 rows of the board. Red sets up their chips on the first and second row, while Blue sets up their chips on the fifth and sixth row. Movement: Whoever is red goes first. Then, players alternate moves back and forth. No matter what, you cannot skip your turn. Chips are allowed to move in any direction except backwards. This means that chips can move diagonally, horizontally or forwards, but it cannot move to a row that is behind it. The same rule applies to capturing other chips. However, when a chip is on their respective first two rows of the board, horizontal movement is not allowed, and they can only move forwards or diagonally. However, the exception to this rule is if the horizontal move is a capture. When a piece makes it to the corner on the other side of the board, the piece cannot be captured nor can it be moved anymore. How to win and draw: The main method to win and the overarching goal in quadrants is to occupy the two corners on the opponent’s side of the board. If that is done, then the player wins. However, there are other ways to win, such as if the other player loses all of their pieces or does not have any legal moves (although this is rare to come by). Additionally, the other player can resign to end the game. Draws occur if there is insufficient amount of pieces to win the game (if for example, each player only has one piece, even though they need at least two pieces in order to win the game by reaching the two corners.). Even though another player can still blunder their final piece, the main goal is to reach the two corners, which is not feasible. A draw can also occur through agreement if both players agree that no progress can be made to turn the game in their favor.
Decided to make a new and unique board game, and I did! Tell me how quadrants turned out! Also, let me know if there are any bugs or problems with the game. You can also ask for suggestions or additions to the board game as well! Enjoy! And no, this is not checkers. You’ll see fairly soon why. I MIGHT add bots in the future, although I’m not totally sure if I can implement a bot into quadrants because I’m kind of bad at coding, but I’ll try. Not sure when, though. Tested by @shadowstarz01 btw lemme know if you wanna take off the highlights they can get annoying when you’re locked in
