Ok so we will cover some rules for the game Ataxx. Here's a site to play it on: Ataxx.
Now time to thank my monospace font choice as ugly ascii diagrams are now easy!
Ok first i'll show the starting position:
so the dots are empty spaces, the lowercase p are player 1's, and the uppercase ones are player two's. the board is 7x7.
p.....P
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P.....p
Note: somtimes there are blocking squares which we will explain later.
The goal of the game is to have more pieces at the end of the game than your opponent.
Ok now without further ado, the rules: