Someone wrote in recently saying they'd just won a Halma game in five moves and couldn't see how that was possible. Here's the game; the winner was playing white. As you can see, they only had to put one piece in their target camp and that gave them the win, because their opponent was occupying all of the other spaces. (See the "Objective" paragraph in the Halma help for why that's a win.)
Question for all of you Halma players: Should there be some kind of minimum number of turns or something? Or is this a perfectly valid quick win, a bit like a "fool's mate" in Chess? I'm not disputing that this is a win under our currently-posted rules, just asking whether those rules are really correct... The Wikipedia article on Halma does not mention the rule about a win even if your opponent left pieces in your camp, but that was in the rules the various halma players gave us when we were putting the game on the site, and WP is a great site but not definitive.
Interested in hearing from active Halma players on this.
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