Objective
Take all of the other side’s pieces, or leave them with no legal move. This is English draughts (also called American checkers) on an 8×8 board. Black moves first. Pieces are Font Awesome icons from the Maths Vault Pro kit.
Moving
- Men — move one square diagonally forward onto a dark square.
- Captures — jump an adjacent enemy piece onto the empty square beyond. Captures are mandatory. If several captures are possible, you may choose any of them.
- Multi-jumps — after a capture, if the same piece can jump again, it must keep jumping.
- Kings — a man that reaches the far rank is crowned and may then move one square diagonally forward or backward. Kings do not fly across empty squares.
- Crowning a jump — if a man kings in the middle of a jumping sequence, the turn ends there.
Endings and draws
- Win — the other side has no pieces left, or no legal move.
- Forty-move rule — forty moves each with no capture or crowning: draw.
- Threefold repetition — the same position, to move, occurs three times: draw.