Draughts


Draughts, known as checkers in the US, is a game of strategy between two players using red and white circle pieces. The board consists of 32 alternating light and dark coloured squares and the players move their pieces diagonally on the board. The players have alternating turns and the player with the black pieces makes the first move. The payable surface of the board is the on the dark squares only and the players start from opposite ends of the board with twelve pieces each. The pieces move diagonally to adjacent square, capturing the pieces of the opponent by jumping over them.

A piece can only be moved into an unoccupied adjacent diagonal square. Capturing an opponent’s piece is mandatory in the game and if the player does not see a move where he/she could capture a piece the opponent can take the piece when his/her turn comes. All captured pieces are removed from the board. A player that has no pieces left in play or has no possible moves loses the game.

Single pieces are considered uncrowned men. When a player succeeds in moving a piece from one end of the board to the other, it is then crowned by adding another piece on top of it. The crowned pieces still have to move diagonally, but can move back and forth across the board capturing the pieces of the opponent. In international draughts, flying kings can make successive jumps over the opponent’s piece, but this is not permitted in English draughts. They can only jump over one piece at a time.

There are many variations of this game, which include:



All of the different games have different board sizes and different rules.





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