How can the starting position be easily remembered?
A. Try using a photo or diagram of the starting position, setting it up, then taking off the pieces. Repeat this using different colours till you remember. Explaining it in words is harder. As you sit facing one side of the board, the nearest three rows of the board to you (marked out by the first horizontal borderline you come to) will contain three of your pieces. All three are pointing into the board (with their backs against the outer edge of the board): one just inside the borderline and on the left edge of the board, one just inside the borderline and on the right edge of the board (facing each other across the board). One will be placed in the middle of the side in front of you. If you are playing the 2 player game then you each have a fourth piece, and this is pointing into the centre of the board, and is placed on the corner tile on the right at the opposite side of the board to you.
