Goal
- Capture all of your opponent's pieces or leave them without a move. A player who cannot move loses.
Capturing
- Capturing is compulsory: jump over an opponent piece onto the empty square behind it.
- If the same piece can capture again, it must go on. The chosen capture is played to the end.
- After a capture, a long-moving king must stop on a square from which it can capture again, if there is one.
- A man that reaches the far row becomes a king.
Draw
- The same position for the third time, 50 moves with only kings moving and no capture, or one king each.
Pool Checkers
- 8×8 board, played on the dark squares. 12 men each. Black starts.
- Men move one square diagonally forward and capture forward and backward.
- Kings fly: they move and capture any distance diagonally.
- If several captures are possible, choose any of them.
- A man that reaches the far row becomes a king, unless it can capture on from there; then it goes on as a man.
Tips
- You can choose any capture, so pick the one that leaves your pieces safest, not just the biggest.
- Men capture backwards: a piece that slipped behind your lines can still be taken.
Controls
- Tap a piece and then a lit square, or drag the piece there.
- In a multiple capture, play one jump at a time.
- Against the bot or a friend on this phone, Undo takes your last move back.
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