avoid later disputes. A man in a corner is captured if the opponent places his men on the two squares adjacent to the corner. Repeating sequences of moves are not allowed: if the same position occurs three times, with the same player to move, he must vary his attack. The dux cannot be captured. It is immobilized if blocked on all four sides. A player who immobilizes the enemy's dux wins the game, even if some of the obstruction is by the dux's own men. If the game cannot be won by immobilizing either dux, the player who has more men left on the board wins. (Kowalski later changed this to say that play continues until one player cannot move, and so loses.) Edward Falkener's reconstruction (1892) Game played on a board having 144 cells or squares. Each player has five rows of pieces, beginning at the left hand corner they are placed alternately. The pieces move and take in all directions, perpendicularly, horizontally, diagonally, forwards and backwards. Pieces attack each other when in contiguous cells, and when another piece comes up on the opposite side the intermediate piece is taken off. A piece can go between two adverse pieces without being taken. When one side is hopelessly beaten or locks himself in the game is lost. Museum Quintana reconstruction These are the rules from the in Künzing (pictured above): Two players have sixteen pieces each, which are arranged in two rows facing each other. The goal of the game is to capture all of the opponent's pieces. The pieces move orthogonally any unobstructed distance. A piece is captured when it is caught between two opposing pieces on adjacent squares in a rank or file. The captured piece is removed from the board. Victory is by capturing more pieces than one's opponent, or by hemming in the opponent's pieces so that movement is impossible. Similar games In China the various board games in the family of Fang Qi have similar rules. Typically board size varies from 4×4 in Korea (Gonu) to 17×17 in Tibet. Most varieties have the initial "Placing Stone" phase, followed by the "Removing Stone" phase (if any), and then finally the "Capturing Stone" phase. References External links Ludus latrunculorum: Latin game rule by Gudrun Eger-Harsch 1985 The Doctor's Game Dr. Ulrich Schädler argues that the Stanway game was neither latrunculi nor played on an 8×12 board. Varro's