The players
make one or more moves on the board by turns.
Black player always starts the game. The game
takes two players and 24 pieces (draughtsmen)
on a chequered board.
The objective of the game is
to wipe out all of the opponent’s pieces
on the board or to have them put in a situation
where it is not
possible for the opponent to make a valid move.
The pieces can only be moved diagonally and
can only move forward diagonally one square at
a time.
You capture the opponent’s pieces by “leaping
over” them with one of your own pieces,
meaning: the opponent’s piece has to be
placed diagonally in front of your own piece
and the square just diagonally behind this square
has to be vacant.
If you are in a position where
you can beat one of the opponent’s pieces
you are compelled to do so, even though this
might threaten your
overall position in the game.
It is possible to beat more pieces
in the same turn. If the piece you have just
beaten, one
of the opponent’s pieces with ends on a
square, where you are able to beat yet another
of the opponent’s pieces, you must capture
this piece and this continues until you cannot
capture more of the opponent’s pieces,
with the piece in question. If you are going
to capture two of the opponent’s pieces,
you have to do this using two moves (not two
turns), first you capture one piece and after
that the next piece. You cannot just move the
piece to a position behind the other piece; you
want to beat, in order to signal that you want
to capture two pieces by one move.
If a piece has got the possibility
of capturing two individual, of the opponent’s
pieces, then you decide by yourself, which
of the pieces
you want to capture.
If a piece reaches the opponent’s back
line this piece turns into a ‘king’ (this
is shown by a star in the piece). A king has
got the quality that it can move backwards, still
only diagonally and one square at a time. A king
can also beat one of the opponent’s pieces
with a move backwards.
You lose the game if you cannot make a move,
using the above outlined rules, or if you have
got no pieces left on the board.
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