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    <credit type="author">
      <name>Gregory Lozet</name>
      <email>gregorylozet@gmail.com</email>
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    <desc>Draughts on a 10x10 board.</desc>
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  <title>International draughts</title>
  <p>A form of the strategy board game draughts.</p>

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

    <section id="equipment">
      <subtitle>Equipment</subtitle>
      <p>The game is played on a board with 10×10 squares, alternatingly dark and light.</p>
      <p>The game is played on the dark squares. The lower-leftmost square should be dark.</p>
      <p>Each player has 20 pieces. In the starting position the pieces are placed on the first four rows closest to the players. This leaves two central rows empty.</p>
    </section>

    <section id="move">
      <subtitle>Move</subtitle>
      <p>The player with the light pieces makes the first move. The two players make moves alternately.</p>
      <p>Ordinary pieces move forward one square diagonally to a square that is not occupied by another piece.</p>
      <p>A piece is crowned if it stops on the far edge of the board at the end of its turn. Another piece is placed on top of it to mark it.</p>
      <p>Crowned pieces, sometimes called kings, can move freely multiple steps in any direction.</p>
    </section>

    <section id="capture">
      <subtitle>Capture</subtitle>
      <p>Opposing pieces can and must be captured by jumping over the opposing piece, two squares in any direction.</p>
      <p>If there is one unoccupied square before or behind opposing pieces then jumps multiple times over opposing pieces in a single turn forward or backward can and must be made. It is compulsory to jump over as many pieces as possible. One must play with the piece that can make the maximum captures.</p>
      <p>After the piece has jumped over the opponent's piece or pieces, the jumped-over pieces are taken from the board.</p>
      <p>The same piece may not be jumped over twice.</p>
    </section>

    <section id="result">
      <subtitle>Result</subtitle>
      <p>A player with no valid move remaining loses. This occurs if the player has no pieces left, or if all the player's pieces are obstructed from moving by opponent pieces.</p>
      <p>The game is considered a draw when the same position repeats itself for the third time (not necessarily consecutive), with the same player having the move each time.</p>
      <p>If, during 25 moves, there were only king movements, without piece movements or jumps, the game is considered a draw.</p>
      <p>If there are only three kings, two kings and a piece, or a king and two pieces against a king, the game will be considered a draw after the two players have each played 16 turns.</p>
      <p>If there are only two kings, one kings and a piece, or a king against a king, the game will be considered a draw after the two players have each played 5 turns.</p>
    </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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