Abstract: A two player board game employs a playing board and two differently colored sets of playing pieces, each set having the same number of pieces. The board has a flat rectangular playing surface divided by a rectangular grid of lines into a plurality of like squares. The surface also carries four curved lines disposed on the surface adjacent but outside the corners. Each curved line is associated with a corresponding corner and connects the peripheral point of intersection on one side of the corner which is spaced by one intervening point of intersection from the vertex of the corner to the peripheral point of intersection on the other side of the corner which is spaced by one intervening point of intersection from the same vertex. The grid contains thirty-five squares arranged in a five by seven rectangular matrix. There are ten pieces in each set of pieces.