Land Rush is played with Chess pieces on a Chess board, and for the most part the pieces have their normal Chess moves. (Pawn movement is slightly different.) However, other than kings pieces cannot capture, and the goal of the game is to build a connected chain of your pieces between the left and right edges of the board which fences off more than 32 squares. The board starts empty. On a turn a player may create a piece or move an existing piece. Pieces are created on the owner's first rank and have point values: in order to create a piece there must be at least as many pieces in its file as its point value. (Pawns have a value of 0 so can be created at the start of the game.)