Attacco

Attacco is a c.1900 game by George Howard Monks (the inventor of Halma), published by Adolf Sala.

It is played in a 11x17 board with the following markers,

Each player has 22 pieces that start at the dotted squares. The filled square is the player's stronghold.

Rules:

• On his turn, a player selects one friendly piece and either:
• moves to an adjacent light-colored square (orthogonally or diagonally)
• jumps over any piece landing on the immediate next square, that must be empty and light-colored
• if the jump is over an opponent piece, this piece is captured
• jumps can be multiple but are not mandatory, and the player may stop jumping whenever he wants
• Dark squares are walls that cannot be moved in or jumped over
• Wins the player that moves a piece into the opponent's stronghold, or captures all enemy pieces
  

There is a (possibly less interesting) variant of the game [1], that only allows jumps over enemy pieces.

[1] Fred Horn - Attacco, AGPI Quarterly 8 [1] (2024)