Bagh Chal (เคฌเคพเคเคเคพเคฒ), the tiger's move, is played on a grid of five points by five points joined by 56 lines, including the alternating alquerque diagonals. Pieces sit on the intersections and travel one step along a line.
- Setup. Four tigers on the four corners. Twenty goats off the board. Goats move first.
- Placement phase. The goat player must place one goat on an empty point each turn and may not move goats already on the board. Tigers move and capture freely from turn one.
- Movement phase. Once all twenty goats are placed, goats slide one step per turn along a line. Goats never jump and never capture.
- Capturing. A tiger jumps an adjacent goat in a straight line to the empty point directly beyond. One goat per jump, no chains, no jumping other tigers, and capturing is optional.
- Tigers win on five captures in total across the game.
- Goats win when no tiger has any legal move left.
Two habits win most beginner games. As goats, check both directions along every line before placing: a tiger on one side with an empty point on the other means that goat is lost. As tigers, get off the three-connection corners early and hunt for forks that threaten two captures at once, because a single placement cannot defend both.
Read the full Bagh Chal rules and strategy guide for the board's connection map, deliberate goat sacrifices, the transition between phases, and the list of beginner mistakes for each side.