The gameChess strategy, stadium heart

Master Move™ is a board game for two players. It is played on a pitch of 9 × 16 squares with a goal at each end. Each team fields 11 shield-shaped pieces: the symbol on the shield tells you how it moves, the tip points at the goal to attack.

Learn by watchingMaster moves

Real plays, taken from games against The Master. Tap a video and watch how a Move.

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The storyBorn in 2019, on a sheet of A4

The first pieces cut out with scissors, the magnetic board, a game on a train in front of a group of onlookers: find out how Master Move was born.

The piecesSix roles, six ways to move

• Keeper

  1 per team

  Moves one square along the goal line, within its three squares.

• Defender

  2 per team

  One square in any direction.

• Winger

  3 per team

  Diagonally up to 4 squares, attacks down the flanks and always stays on its colour.

• Runner

  2 per team

  Straight, horizontally or vertically, up to 4 squares.

• Joker

  1 per team

  In any direction, up to 2 squares.

• Raider

  2 per team

  In an L like the knight in chess: the only one that jumps over other pieces.

Play onlineChallenge The Master

In the digital version, with a 3D stadium, crowd and advertising boards, you play against The Master: Master Move's artificial opponent, trained by playing thousands of games against itself. You can also challenge a friend: on the same device or remotely, with the «Challenge a friend» button that creates a link to send on WhatsApp. And with Organise a tournament you play a tournament between friends, 3 to 8 players.

• KID
• BASE
• OVER
• TOP

You start from Kid, suited to learners and children. Whoever beats The Master at level Top becomes a true Master Move.

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RulesAll the rules, pitch and pieces

The official rules with the pitch, the moves of every piece, the line-ups, the anti-stalemate rule and examples.