Board game with freely movable pieces

A board game with freely movable pieces for moving pieces over a gameboard in order to capture opponents game pieces comprising, in combination:

• a game board having a top surface and a lower surface, the game board being of a planar and rectangular configuration, the top surface including a plurality of movement lines disposed thereon, the movement lines interconnecting playing spaces, the plurality of movement lines including horizontal, vertical and diagonal movement lines, the plurality of movement lines being arranged into a rectangular central configuration and a pair of triangular end configurations, the rectangular central configuration including six horizontal rows and five vertical rows, each triangular end configuration including an outer horizontal row of three widely positioned playing spaces, an intermediate horizontal row of three narrowly positioned spaces and an apex of one playing space, the apex of each triangular end configuration intersecting opposing end horizontal rows of the rectangular central configuration, the game board having recesses formed in opposing ends of the top surface thereof, each recess being formed with a finger notch, the recesses being arranged in sets of nine and seven;
• sixteen playing pieces for a first player and sixteen playing pieces for a second player whereby the playing pieces for the first player being distinguishable from the playing pieces of the second player;
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• two sets of lettered pieces, each of the sets of lettered pieces positionable within-the recesses formed in the opposing ends of the game board, each of the sets of lettered pieces arrangable to spell out "PROFESSOR SIXTEEN".