Fanorona

Fanorona is a two-player strategy board game from Madagascar, played on a five-by-nine grid of intersections, in which players capture opposing pieces by approaching or withdrawing custody moves along the grid lines, with the game traditionally ending when one side has captured all of the opponent's pieces or neither side can capture further. It is Madagascar's national board game and is generally considered to have developed on the island, with some scholars linking its lineage to earlier alignment and capture games such as alquerque, though the precise line of descent is debated among historians of the game.