Dama

How to play

1. All 64 squares are used. Each player has 16 men on their second and third rows; each side's back row starts empty. The light side moves first.
2. A man moves one square forward or sideways, never backward and never diagonally.
3. A man captures by jumping an adjacent enemy piece forward or sideways onto the empty square beyond, and keeps capturing in the same move while it can.
4. Capturing is compulsory and you must take the most pieces you can; a king and a man count the same. If several ways take the same number, you choose.
5. A man reaching the far row becomes a king and stops there, even in the middle of a capture.
6. A king moves any number of empty squares in a straight line forward, back or sideways, captures a piece at any distance landing on any empty square beyond it, and may not turn back between two jumps.

Winning and draws

• You win when your opponent has no pieces left or no legal move.
• Two or more kings against a lone king win at once.
• Draws: one piece each, fifty moves by each side with no capture, or the same position three times.