The game uses a square board measuring 8 by 8 cells and 64 special chips, painted white and black on different sides. One player plays white, the other plays black. When making a move, a player places a chip on a cell of the board with "his" color. At the beginning of the game, 4 chips are placed in the center of the board: two black and two white. The first move is made by black. Then the players move in turns.