Lielow

Lielow is a a two-player game invented by Michael Amundsen and Alek Erickson in the summer of 2021. The goal is to kill the enemy king.

The game is played on a chessboard and each player needs a large supply of stackable checkers in their own color. In addition, they will need one token each – called the "crown" – that can be placed on top of a stack to mark it as that player's king. Initially, 8 checkers of each color are placed exactly where the pawns start out in Chess. There is no king in the initial position.

Rules:

• Each turn, you move one of your stacks in a straight (orthogonal or diagonal) line a number of squares exactly equal to the size of the moved stack. (Note: The size of a stack is the number of checkers in it – not counting the crown.)

• If the stack lands on an empty space, it grows by the addition of 1 checker of your color.

• If the stack lands on an enemy stack, the enemy stack is removed and your stack shrinks down to 1 of your color (unless it was already of size 1, in which case its size simply does not change).