About Draughts The classic strategy game you will fall in love with

Draughts (Checkers) is a worldwide-known, classic strategy game. Draughts has become very popular in many countries and turned into many variants with slightly different rules. Developed with passion, this game reproduces many different variants so you can learn new rules or play your favorite ones.

Variants currently available in the game

• English Draughts English Draughts The game is played on the dark squares of the 8x8 board in regular orientation.
  Player with "dark" pieces starts.
  Pieces (men) can be moved one field diagonally forward.
  Captures (jumps) are mandatory but player is free to choose which one to perform if multiple capturing moves are possible.
  Only forward captures are legal.
  Any piece can capture any other, including Kings.
  When a piece touches the border line of opponent side, it becomes a King and must stop on this field (if it reached this field during capturing).
  A King moves and captures one field backward and forward.
  The game is finished when one of the players loses all his pieces or can't perform any legal move.
  A draw is when both players performed 20 moves only with Kings (in a row) and didn't capture any piece during them.
• American Pool American Pool The game is played on the dark squares of the 8x8 board in regular orientation.
  Player with "dark" pieces starts.
  Pieces (men) can be moved one field diagonally forward.
  Captures (jumps) are mandatory but player is free to choose which one to perform if multiple capturing moves are possible.
  Only forward captures are legal.
  Any piece can capture any other, including Kings.
  When a piece touches the border line of opponent side, it becomes a King and must stop on this field (if it reached this field during capturing).
  A King moves and captures one field backward and forward.
  The game is finished when one of the players loses all his pieces or can't perform any legal move.
  A draw is when both players performed 20 moves only with Kings (in a row) and didn't capture any piece during them.
• Brazilian Brazilian Draughts (little Polish) The game is played on the dark squares of the 8x8 board in regular orientation.
  Player with "light" pieces starts.
  Pieces (men) can be moved one field diagonally forward.
  Captures (jumps) are mandatory. If multiple capturing moves are available, the player must perform the move that captures the most pieces.
  A piece can capture in both directions - forward and backward.
  Any piece can capture any other, including Kings.
  When a piece stops on the border line of opponent side, it becomes a King.
  A King has long moves and captures on any field along its move and stops on any field after the last captured piece.
  The game is finished when one of the players loses all his pieces or can't perform any legal move.
  A draw is when both players performed 20 moves only with Kings (in a row) and didn't capture any piece during them.
• Russian Russian Draughts The game is played on the dark squares of the 8x8 board in regular orientation.
  Player with "light" pieces starts.
  Pieces (men) can be moved one field diagonally forward.
  Captures (jumps) are mandatory but player is free to choose which one to perform if multiple capturing moves are possible.
  A piece can capture in both directions - forward and backward.
  Any piece can capture any other, including Kings.
  When a piece touches a field on the border line of opponent side, it becomes a King. When it reaches this field during capturing, it becomes a King and continues capturing (if possible) as a King.
  A King has long moves and captures on any field along its move and stops on any field after the last captured piece.
  The game is finished when one of the players loses all his pieces or can't perform any legal move.
  A draw is when both players performed 20 moves only with Kings (in a row) and didn't capture any piece during them.
• Spanish Spanish Draughts The game is played on the light squares of the 8x8 board in mirrored orientation.
  Player with "light" pieces starts.
  Pieces (men) can be moved one field diagonally forward.
  Captures (jumps) are mandatory. If multiple capturing moves are available, the player must perform the move that captures the most pieces.
  Any piece can capture any other, including Kings.
  Only forward captures are legal, however Kings can capture in any direction.
  When a piece stops on the border line of opponent side, it becomes a King.
  A King has long moves and captures on any field along its move and stops on any field after the last captured piece.
  The game is finished when one of the players loses all his pieces or can't perform any legal move.
  A draw is when both players performed 20 moves only with Kings (in a row) and didn't capture any piece during them.
• Portuguese Portuguese Draughts The game is played on the dark squares of the 8x8 board in mirrored orientation.
  Player with "light" pieces starts.
  Pieces (men) can be moved one field diagonally forward.
  Captures (jumps) are mandatory. If multiple capturing moves are available, the player must perform the move that captures the most pieces.
  Any piece can capture any other, including Kings.
  Only forward captures are legal, however Kings can capture in any direction.
  When a piece stops on the border line of opponent side, it becomes a King.
  A King has long moves and captures on any field along its move and stops on any field after the last captured piece.
  The game is finished when one of the players loses all his pieces or can't perform any legal move.
  A draw is when both players performed 20 moves only with Kings (in a row) and didn't capture any piece during them.
• German German Draughts The game is played on the dark squares of the 8x8 board in regular orientation.
  Player with "light" pieces starts.
  Pieces (men) can be moved diagonally forward.
  Captures (jumps) are mandatory but player is free to choose which one to perform if multiple capturing moves are possible.
  A piece can capture in both directions - forward and backward.
  Any piece can capture any other, including Kings.
  When a piece stops on the border line of opponent side, it becomes a King.
  A King has long moves and can capture on any field along its move and must stop right after the last captured piece.
  The game is finished when one of the players loses all his pieces or can't perform any legal move.
  A draw is when both players performed 20 moves only with Kings (in a row) and didn't capture any piece during them.
• Italian Italian Draughts The game is played on the dark squares of the 8x8 board in mirrored orientation.
  Player with "light" pieces starts.
  Pieces (men) can be moved one field diagonally forward.
  Captures (jumps) are mandatory. If multiple capturing moves are available, the player must perform the move that captures the most pieces.
  Only forward captures are legal, however Kings can capture in any direction.
  A piace can't capture Kings which can be captured only by another King.
  When a piece touches the border line of opponent side, it becomes a King and must stop on this field (if it reached this field during capturing).
  A King moves and captures one field backward and forward.
  The game is finished when one of the players loses all his pieces or can't perform any legal move.
  A draw is when both players performed 20 moves only with Kings (in a row) and didn't capture any piece during them.
• Turkish Turkish Draughts The game is played on the whole light 8x8 board.
  Each player has 8 pieces in the beginning.
  Player with "light" pieces starts.
  Pieces (men) can be moved one field orthogonally - left, right and forward.
  If multiple capturing moves are available, the player must perform the move that captures the most pieces.
  A piece can capture in both directions - forward and backward.
  Any piece can capture any other, including Kings.
  When a piece stops on the border line of opponent side, it becomes a King.
  A King has long moves and captures on any field along its move and stops on any field after the last captured piece.
  The game is finished when one of the players loses all his pieces or can't perform any legal move.
  A draw is when both players performed 20 moves only with Kings (in a row) and didn't capture any piece during them.
• Thai Thai The game is played on the dark squares of the 8x8 board in regular orientation.
  Player with "light" pieces starts.
  Pieces (men) can be moved one field diagonally forward.
  Captures (jumps) are mandatory but player is free to choose which one to perform if multiple capturing moves are possible.
  Only forward captures are legal.
  Any piece can capture any other, including Kings.
  When a piece stops on the border line of opponent side, it becomes a King.
  A King has long moves and can capture on any field along its move and must stop right after the last captured piece.
  Captured pieces are removed from the board immediately so and King is allowed to perform 180 degrees turn to continue capturing.
  The game is finished when one of the players loses all his pieces or can't perform any legal move.
  A draw is when both players performed 20 moves only with Kings (in a row) and didn't capture any piece during them.
• Czech Czech Draughts The game is played on the dark squares of the 8x8 board in mirrored orientation.
  Player with "light" pieces starts.
  Pieces (men) can be moved one field diagonally forward.
  Captures (jumps) are mandatory but player is free to choose which one to perform if multiple capturing moves are possible.
  Only forward captures are legal, however Kings can capture in any direction.
  Any piece can capture any other, including Kings.
  When a piece stops on the border line of opponent side, it becomes a King.
  A King has long moves and captures on any field along its move and stops on any field after the last captured piece.
  If multiple capturing sequences are possible, the precedence takes the sequence that moves the King.
  The game is finished when one of the players loses all his pieces or can't perform any legal move.
  A draw is when both players performed 20 moves only with Kings (in a row) and didn't capture any piece during them.
• Kamikaze Kamikaze Also known as Anti-checkers, Poddawki (RU) or Wybijanka (PL). The rules are exactly the same as in Brazilian variant except that wins the player who first loses all his pieces or can't perform any move.
• International (10x10) International Draughts (big Polish) The game is played on the dark squares of the 10x10 board in regular orientation.
  Player with "light" pieces starts.
  Pieces (men) can be moved one field diagonally forward.
  Captures (jumps) are mandatory. If multiple capturing moves are available, the player must perform the move that captures the most pieces.
  A piece can capture in both directions - forward and backward.
  Any piece can capture any other, including Kings.
  When a piece stops on the border line of opponent side, it becomes a King.
  A King has long moves and captures on any field along its move and stops on any field after the last captured piece.
  The game is finished when one of the players loses all his pieces or can't perform any legal move.
  A draw is when both players performed 20 moves only with Kings (in a row) and didn't capture any piece during them.
• Dameo Dameo The game is played on all squares of the 8x8 board in regular orientation.
  Player with "light" pieces starts.
  Pieces can move forward diagonally, vertically and horizontally, however capturing can be made only vertically and horizontally (this applies to Kings as well).
  A special move called "linear" is allowed where a single piece (not a King!) can jump over a sequence of other pieces with the same color provided there is a vacant field it can land on the end.
  Kings can fly and move diagonally, horizontally and vertically in both forward and backward directions.
  Capturing is mandatory and a player must perform a move capturing the most possible pieces.
  The game is finished when one of the players loses all his pieces or can't perform any legal move.
  A draw is when both players performed 20 moves only with Kings (in a row) and didn't capture any piece during them.
• Custom rules Custom rules Create your own rules! It's up to you how the game will behave! :)

If you don't see your favorite variant then you can easily create your own rules! Thanks to very rich settings you can customize capturing, crowning, board orientation and size, and much more! This is probably the most configurable draughts game on the App Store!