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Italian Checkers

• Italian draughts is played on an 8×8 board of 64 alternating dark and light squares. Two players take part, each with 12 pieces of their own colour, called white and black.

• The board is turned: the dark corner square is on each player's right. The pieces stand on the dark squares of the 3 rows nearest to the player. White moves first, then the players take turns.

• The object of the game is to capture or block all the opponent's pieces. A player who has no move on their turn loses.

• A man moves one square diagonally forward to a free square and captures forward only: it jumps over an opposing man to the free square right behind it and keeps capturing while it can. A man may not capture a king. A piece may not jump over pieces of its own colour.

• A man that reaches the last row, by a simple move or by a capture, becomes a king, and the move ends there.

• A king moves one square diagonally forward or backward and captures the same way: over an adjacent opposing man or king to the free square right behind it, continuing while it can. A king may not jump over pieces of its own colour. The same opposing piece may not be jumped twice.

• Capturing is mandatory. If there are several ways to capture, the choice follows this order:

  1. you must take the most pieces; men and kings count the same;
  2. on a tie, the king captures rather than the man;
  3. if still equal, you must take the most kings;
  4. if everything is equal, choose the capture in which a king is taken earliest.

• A missed capture does not cost a piece: the server simply will not accept such a move.

• Draw:

  • the same position has occurred three times;
  • each side has at least one king, and 40 moves by each side have been made with kings only, without a man move and without captures.

Source: FID rules, item 1.1.10. Under the rules this draw is claimed by a player or declared by the referee; on VOG it is recorded automatically.