A guide to world Checkers rules and related variants

[sultan_Ratrout]

Hello everybody. I have used more than one reference to come up with this document. It's based on classifying Checkers games according to families and related variants. This will make it easy for you to master the rules of checkers variants.

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[sultan_Ratrout]

please download the last update of my document.

[sultan_Ratrout]

Hello everybody
plz download the updates as of May,11th

[sultan_Ratrout]

hello again

Updates based on email communication with the author and webamster of www.windames.free.fr
Adding Ivorian checkers
Rephrasing for pool checkers
Adding the Russian 10*8 variant
Updating the Frisian checkers

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[Maurits Meijer]

A great list Sultan,

I think 10x8 Russian is widely practiced and deserves it's own entry.
I believe Scandinavian also has a 8x8 variant.
Perhaps a reference to the rules of a game would be nice.

Great work!

[sultan_Ratrout]

Yeah I updated the document one day ago. I added your remarks.I will continue to update. After that, I will post the updated document.

regards

[sultan_Ratrout]

Hello everybody. Please download my updated document as of 18/5/2015
Adding checkers starting position upon the recommendations of Jean-Bernard Alemanni
writing who starts under pictures
Updating Turkish checkers
Adding Arab checkers
Updating Greek checkers
Adding Dameo checkers
Updating Pool checkers
Updating Scandinavian checkers
Adding Myanmar checkers
Adding Dam Haji checkers/African-American Straight Checkers
Adding new website references
updating danish (I sent an email to checkerschest to explain man jumping in last rank. If there is no reply, I will delete the danish entry)

[sultan_Ratrout]

Updates as of 23/5/2015
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Adding checkers notations
Updating Slovakian, Ghanaian and Malaysian by adding the huffing option
Updating Armenian checkers
Deleting the Danish entry (checkerschest ) and merging Danish checkers with Central south German (no backcapture+any sequence of capture+ king halt) upon the recommendations of Peter Mechelsen
Updating Frisian Checkers
Updating Scandinavian checkers
Adding Crowded and Sparse checkers

[sultan_Ratrout]

My Dutch friend has put my document on his website
here is the link
http://hwiegman.home.xs4all.nl/

regards

[sultan_Ratrout]

updates as of 4-6-2016
Highlighting important terms in bold type in notes
Updating Kena
Adding summary of rules table
Adding Give-away checkers
Updating references

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[Wieger Wesselink]

Sultan, thanks a lot for making this overview! I think I will be able to use this for the overview of game types in http://pdn.fmjd.org/_downloads/gametype.html. It should be easy to add new ones based on your overview. Currently I have this:

var table = [
// type number, description, gametype tag, player piece color, opponent piece color, light field color, dark field color, orientation
['International draughts' , '20,W,10,10,N2,0', 'White', 'DimGray', 'Wheat', 'Peru', 'normal'],
['English draughts' , '21,B,8,8,N1,0' , 'Crimson', 'White', 'LightYellow', 'LimeGreen', 'flipped'],
['Italian draughts' , '22,W,8,8,N2,1' , 'White', 'DimGray', 'Wheat', 'Peru', 'normal' ],
['American pool checkers' , '23,B,8,8,N1,0' , 'Crimson', 'White', 'LightYellow', 'LimeGreen', 'normal'],
['Pool checkers (unified)', '23,W,8,8,A0,0' , 'White', 'DimGray', 'Wheat', 'Peru', 'normal' ],
['Jamaican draughts' , '23,W,8,8,A1,1' , 'White', 'DimGray', 'Wheat', 'Peru', 'normal' ],
['Spanish draughts' , '24,W,8,8,N1,1' , 'White', 'DimGray', 'Wheat', 'Peru', 'normal' ],
['Russian draughts' , '25,W,8,8,A0,0' , 'White', 'DimGray', 'Wheat', 'Peru', 'normal' ],
['Brazilian draughts' , '26,W,8,8,A0,0' , 'White', 'DimGray', 'Wheat', 'Peru', 'normal' ],
['Canadian draughts' , '27,W,12,12,N2,0', 'White', 'DimGray', 'Wheat', 'Peru', 'normal' ],
['Portuguese draughts' , '28,W,8,8,N1,1' , 'White', 'DimGray', 'Wheat', 'Peru', 'normal' ],
['Czech draughts' , '29,W,8,8,A0,0' , 'White', 'DimGray', 'Wheat', 'Peru', 'normal' ],
['Turkish draughts' , '30,W,8,8,A0,0' , 'White', 'DimGray', 'Wheat', 'Wheat', 'normal' ],
['Thai draughts' , '31,B,8,8,N2,0' , 'DimGray', 'White', 'Wheat', 'Peru', 'normal' ],
['Frisian draughts' , '40,W,10,10,N2,0', 'White', 'DimGray', 'Wheat', 'Peru', 'normal' ],
['Spantsiretti draughts' , '41,W,10,8,A0,0' , 'White', 'DimGray', 'Wheat', 'Peru', 'normal' ],
['Dumm (South Africa)' , '-1,W,14,14,N2,0', 'White', 'DimGray', 'Wheat', 'Peru', 'normal' ],
['Sri Lanka Draughts' , '-1,W,12,12,N2,1', 'White', 'DimGray', 'Wheat', 'Peru', 'normal' ],
['Ktar 10x11' , '-1,W,10,11,N2,1', 'White', 'DimGray', 'Wheat', 'Peru', 'normal' ],
['Ktar 10x12' , '-1,W,10,12,N2,1', 'White', 'DimGray', 'Wheat', 'Peru', 'normal' ]
];

[igorlemasson]

Hi Sultan Ratrout,
Congrats for this nice research work.

I'd like notice you about draughts variations in Poland. Even if the most played variation in Poland is "International Draughts" (10x10), there's also a 64 (8x8) variation which has the same rules of Brazilian draughts known as "warcabów 64-polowych (i.e. 64 Polish Draugths)".
Take a look: Poland Draughts Federation official rules

I'd like also recommend to become your valuable research more visible, maybe after the revisions you could update the Wikipedia Draughts article.

[sultan_Ratrout]

Wieger Wesselink Thanks for your intention to add them to game type. That will make it easy for programmers to programme these games. It will also be easy for playerss and resesearchers to master the rules as well

Thanks igorlemasson. Thanks for your info.Yeah, I am familiar with that game. It's called, "Minor Polish". I guess it will be added in the next update.

Plz if you have any suggestions, dont hesitate to email me.

Regards

[sultan_Ratrout]

Hello all,
updates as of today 7/6/2015 . Please download the attachment
Writing in italics the main movement of the checkers variant the represents the family
Adding or rephrasing some pieces of information in the notes section
Merging Russian with international family
Adding Movement and Capture table to make it easy to understand movements and captures in the survey table.

regards

[sultan_Ratrout]

Hello all
Updates as of today 11/6/2015
Updating the portugease checkers after receving an email from the president that he misunderstood my question. Now the section for the Portugease checkers is the same as before.

Updating the movement and capture direction section

Though I put the starting positions for checkers games at the beginning, someone asked me to put
the bottom left square column for the Turkish and Armenian families to be consistent

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