>>7753306Early in the game, neither side has crossed the center nor attempted capture. Yet.
>don't cap your own pieces with white>build pillars filled with your own colors>try to keep your high value pillars out of dangerIf you have enough chips in a pillar, it's legal to move in a "circle," meaning you can just keep moving to the clockwise or counterclockwise and dropping bottom chips on squares you previously "seeded" during the same turn.
Note the origin of Pilaré: it was invented by a Mancala master in Spain in 2005, so there is similarity in movement, strategy, and use of terms. As you deposit Mancala stones (or seeds) into depressions in that game (also Oware and several others), so also you deposit your pillar segments ... or "seed" each space as you use up your move.
The strategy is to cap your opponents pillars with white or your color, preventing them from using their pillars. The player who cannot make a move loses, game over.