In order to capture an opponent's piece, you must jump over it, diagonally, to the adjacent unoccupied square. You can only jump one piece with any given jump. If you can jump, you must. If in the course of single or multiple jumps the man reaches the last rank, becoming a king, the turn shifts to the opponent. No further 'continuation' jump is possible. with this

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game skill. American

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, straight

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, or simply

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, is a form of the draughts board game played on an 8×8 board with 12 pieces on each side that may only initially move and capture diagonally forwards. Only when a piece is "kinged" may it move backwards or forwards.

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Board - The board is an 8×8 grid, with alternating black and red squares, called a

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board (in the United States, in reference to its checkered pattern). This 8x8 checkered grid is shared with chess, and commercial chess sets often include draughts as a secondary game, sometimes with backgammon, which would use the same pieces on a board on the inside of the traditional folding chessboard/storage box. Some international variations of the

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game use a 10x10 or 12x12 board.