Win the game by 

capturing all

 your opponent’s pieces or 

blocking them

 so they have no legal move.

International Draughts is played on the 

dark squares

 of a draughts board.

Each player 

starts

 with pieces on their side of the board.

Only dark squares are used. Pieces 

always move diagonally

.

There are 

two types

 of pieces:

A man moves one square 

diagonally forward

 to an empty square.

A king may move 

any number of empty squares

 diagonally, forward or backward.

You may only move to an 

empty square

.

Capturing is 

mandatory

. If you can capture, you must capture.

A man captures by 

jumping over an opponent’s piece

 to the empty square immediately beyond it. Men may capture both forward and backward.

A 

king captures from a distance

. It may jump over an opponent’s piece along a diagonal and land on any empty square beyond it on the same diagonal.

Captured pieces are 

removed

 after the capture sequence is complete.

If the same piece can 

continue capturing

 after a jump, it must continue.

When several capture sequences are possible, you must choose a sequence that 

captures the maximum number of pieces

.

For example, if one move captures 2 pieces and another captures 3, you 

must choose

 the move that captures 3.

If several moves capture the same maximum number of pieces, you 

may choose any of them

.

A man becomes a king only if it 

ends its turn

 on the farthest row.

If a man reaches the farthest row during a capture sequence but must continue capturing, it 

does not become a king yet

. It continues the sequence as a man.

You win

 if your opponent:

The game may 

end in a draw

 if neither player can force a win, or if the same position repeats according to the game’s draw rules.

These rules create a faster, 

more tactical game

 where every capture must be calculated carefully.