Brax

Brax is an 1899 game by Frederic Denham (patent 406632), published at Fratelli Fabbri Editori.

Brax is a capture game where the goal is to capture all enemy pieces.

Each player has seven pieces, initially placed in the seven center intersections at the player's first row.

Pieces can move up to two lines of their color, and only one line of opposite color (notice that half the lines are red, and the other half are blue). Pieces cannot move over intersections occupied by pieces, or onto intersections occupied by friendly pieces.

Capture is by replacement; a piece that moves into an enemy-occupied intersection captures that piece. Captures are not mandatory.

The game includes another rule named braxing. After moving, if a player threatens a capture in the next move, she can optionally call a «brax» (the threat does need to come from the last moved piece). When a brax is called, the adversary must move that piece in his next turn (if several are threatened, the player can choose which to move). If two pieces of one color and one piece of the opposing color are left on the board, the player with the single piece can no longer brax.

If both players only have a single piece, after five turns without capturing, the game is a draw.

The game includes extra star pieces to allow matches with three or four players,

Brax is also featured in Roger Millington's Games and Puzzles for Addicts,

Here's an older board design:

The game also has a Wikipedia entry.