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Draughts

This popular game is a two-player game played on a board made up of 64 alternately collared squares, eight to a side. All game play occurs on squares of a single colour usually the darker one.

Each player starts with 12 pieces. The object is to capture all of your opponents pieces before he captures yours. Pieces are moved one at a time, and are always made on the diagonals. In the first part of the game, pieces are always moved forward, away from the player. Once a piece reaches the opponent's home row, it is "crowned", and may then move freely in either direction.

Opponents pieces are captured by jumping over them. If an opponent's piece is adjacent to yours, and there is an empty space beyond it, then you must jump over his piece and remove it from the board. The player must continue jumping his opponents as long as there are moves to be made.

The first player to capture all of his opponent's pieces is the winner.
This game is sometimes called checkers, the rules of play are about the same. The game can also be played on a chess board, however the chess peaces would be unsuitable.