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    <credit type="author">
      <name>Gregory Lozet</name>
      <email>gregorylozet@gmail.com</email>
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    <desc>Draughts on a 8x8 board.</desc>
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  <title>English draughts</title>
  <p>A form of the strategy board game draughts.</p>

  <section id="english-draughts-rules">
    <title>Rules</title>

    <section id="equipment">
      <subtitle>Equipment</subtitle>
      <p>The draughtboard is composed of 64 squares, alternately light and dark arranged in a square array of 8 rows and 8 columns.</p>
      <p>At the commencement of play the draughtboard is placed between the players in such a way that a green square is to be found on the player’s near left side, and a white square to their right side.</p>
      <p>At the beginning of a game, one player has 12 dark-coloured discs (referred to as “pieces” or “men”), and the other player has 12 light-coloured discs. The pieces shall be set on the first 12 squares of each player.</p>
    </section>

    <section id="move">
      <subtitle>Move</subtitle>
      <p>The first move in each game is made by the player with the Red men; thereafter the moves are made by each player in turn.</p>
      <p>An ordinary move of a man is its transfer diagonally forward left or right from one square to an immediately neighbouring vacant square.</p>
      <p>When a man reaches the farthest row forward (known as the “king-row” or “crown-head”) it becomes a king, and this completes the turn of play. The man is crowned by placing a man of the same colour on top of it</p>
      <p>An ordinary move of a king (crowned man) is from one square diagonally forward or backward, left or right, to an immediately neighbouring vacant square.</p>
    </section>

    <section id="capture">
      <subtitle>Capture</subtitle>
      <p>A capturing move of a man is its transfer from one square over a diagonally adjacent and forward square occupied by an opponent`s piece (man or king) and on to a vacant square immediately beyond it. A capturing move is called a "jump".</p>
      <p>If a jump creates an immediate further capturing opportunity, then the capturing move of the piece (man or king) is continued until all the jumps are completed. The only exception is that if a man reaches the king-row by means of a capturing move it then becomes a king but may not make any further jumps until their opponent has moved.</p>
      <p>On completion of the jump the captured piece is removed from the board.</p>
      <p>All capturing moves are compulsory, whether offered actively or passively. If there are two or more ways to jump, a player may select any one that they wish, not necessarily that which gains the most pieces. A man can only be jumped once during a multiple jumping sequence.</p>
      <p>A capturing move of a king is similar to that of a man, but may be in a forward or backward direction.</p>
    </section>

    <section id="result">
      <subtitle>Result</subtitle>
      <p>The game is won by the player who can make the last move; that is, no move is available to the opponent on their turn to play, either because all their pieces have been captured or their remaining pieces are all blocked.</p>
      <p>A game shall be declared drawn if :</p>
      <list>
        <item><p>At any stage of the game, a player can demonstrate to the satisfaction of the referee that with their next move they would create the same position for the third time during the game.</p></item>
        <item><p>Neither player has advanced an uncrowned man towards the king-row and no pieces have been removed from the board during their own previous 40 moves.</p></item>
      </list>
    </section>
  </section>

  <section id="draughts-gameplay">
    <title>Game play</title>
    <p>You can use your mouse and click on a particular piece to select it and display the available destinations. Then click on a destination square to move the selected piece to this square.</p>
    <p>When capturing several pieces, you must move the selected piece to each intermediate positions. The move is completed only when the selected piece is moved to its final position.</p>
  </section>

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