Traditional Hawaiian Game

Material: An 8 by 8 square board. 31 white pieces and 31 black stones.

Objective: The player who makes the last move wins.

Rules: Each player takes turns moving one of their pieces. White starts.

A piece may be moved as long as it is adjacent (horizontally or vertically, but not diagonally) to another opposing piece and can jump over it to the next square (which must be unoccupied). The jumped piece is captured and removed from the board (similar to Checkers). This means that captures must occur on every move in a game of Konane.

After a capture, the moved piece may, optionally and if possible, continue to capture opposing pieces as long as it does so in the same direction (i.e. it cannot change the direction of the capture in the middle of the move).

An example: It is White's turn in the diagram below on the left. The white piece on c3 has several capture options: either it moves to c5, jumping and capturing the black piece on c4; or it moves to e3, capturing d3 and can continue jumping to g3 (capturing f3). Note that after the jump to e3, it cannot change direction to capture e4 in the same move.

In the diagram on the right we see the position after the double capture of d3 and f3 by the white piece on c3. Since it is now Black's turn and he does not have a single move available, the game ends with a victory for White.