HOW TO PLAY WATERMELON CHESS

Watermelon chess is a battle game. It

is completely unrelated to chess,
which is great, because despite my
love of board games, I cant stand
regular chess.
Objective: To capture your opponents tokens by surrounding and immobilizing
them. When your opponents tokens are reduced to two, you win.
What you need:
A game board, drawn as shown in the above photo
6 tokens per player. Pilfer tokens from other games you might have, or use coins,
beads, beans or other similar objects.
2 enthusiastic players

Instructions and Rules:

Set up game pieces in the starting positions as shown in the photo below:

Alternating turns, players move tokens, one point at a time, along the designated
lines in an attempt to surround their opponent.
Player can only move from one intersecting point to an adjacent point. They can
move in any direction.
Players cant move across open spaces; they must move along the lines.
When one token is surrounded on all sides and cannot move, it is removed from
play.
When one player has only two tokens left on the board, the game is over.