Dama
Dama brings the great family of draughts and checkers games together on one wooden board. Pick the rules you grew up with: International draughts on the big 10×10 board with flying kings and the majority capture rule, English and American checkers with short kings on 8×8, Russian draughts where a man crowned in the middle of a capture carries on as a king, Brazilian draughts with international rules on the small board, or Turkish dama, played on every square with straight moves, sixteen pieces each and long-range kings.
Every rule is enforced for you. Captures are compulsory, multi-jumps go on until no more pieces can be taken, and in the variants that require it you must take the largest number of pieces. Tap or drag a piece and the game shows every legal move, including the whole route of a long capture and the pieces it will remove. The move list follows each game in proper notation, and draws come from the real rules of each variant: threefold repetition, too many moves without a capture or a man moving, and the endgame move limits.
Play the computer on Easy, Normal, Hard or Master; it thinks in the background and looks ahead through every forced capture. Undo a move when you slip, flip the board, choose walnut, maple, ebony or olive wood. Play a friend on the same phone or tablet, or go online: quick match a player who picked the same rules, or create a private room and share its four-letter code. Online games give 60 seconds per move. Your settings, stats and an unfinished game against the computer are saved automatically.
How to play
- Choose a rule set: International (10×10), English checkers, Russian, Brazilian or Turkish dama.
- Tap one of your pieces to see where it can go, then tap a highlighted square, or drag the piece there. Men move forward one square (diagonally, or in Turkish dama straight ahead or sideways).
- Capture by jumping over an enemy piece to the empty square behind it, and keep jumping while you can. Capturing is compulsory; in International, Brazilian and Turkish rules you must take the most pieces.
- A man that reaches the far row becomes a king. Kings move in every direction, and in all variants except English checkers they fly across any number of empty squares.
- Win by capturing all enemy pieces or leaving your opponent without a legal move.
Controls
| Mouse / touch | Tap a piece, then a highlighted square; or drag the piece there |
|---|---|
| Tap route squares | Pick one of several capture routes that end on the same square |
| U / Backspace | Undo (against the computer and two players) |
| F | Flip the board |
| Esc | Pause |
- Developer
- peakr.io
- Released
- Platforms
- Browser (desktop and mobile)
- Players
- Single player and online multiplayer