Your Q: - Īnswer: - Yes he can change any direction when he captures From that space, it can choose to go further in the capturing process if in front of it is a new victim to be captured. Now let's go back to your questions again Your Q:-Įxplanation :-In all of these checkers families, the king can take in any direction and there must be space between it and the piece. In the checkers variant you have just referred to (International), the orthogonal directions in movement or capturing are not used, therefore, only the diagonal directions for movement and capturing are included. International+Turkish (Frisian, Armenian, etc.).Spanish (Spanish, Argentinian, Czech, etc.).International (Interational, Brazillian, Russian, Pool, etc.).

Examples of the families and movement and capturing are included When it comes to checkers, four basic families of checkers are recognized. Changing directions in a capture sequence is therefore only by 90 degrees left or right.įor Thai draughts, however, each jumped victim is immediately removed from the board, after which the king can continue capturing more victims, including in the direction it came from (i.e. Furthermore, it is not allowed to jump the same piece more than once during a capture sequence. The prime example is Thai draughts, where the king can 'scan' across empty squares for capture victims, but where it has to 'land' directly behind a jumped piece, and can only 'scan' for its next victim from that same landing square.įor almost all draughts variants, the jumped pieces are only removed from the board when the king is on its destination square. A king can only capture a piece when it is directly adjacent to it, and it has to 'land' directly behind a jumped piece from which it can continue jumping other pieces, including in a direction orthogonal to the current direction.Įxotic kings. This applies to American checkers and Italian draughts.

Each of these potential 'landing' squares can be used as the starting point for 'scanning' for the next victim, which can be in a direction orthogonal to the current direction. A king can 'scan' across empty squares for capture victims, and it can also 'slide' through empty squares directly behind a jumped piece. the International/Brazilian/Canadian, Russian, Spanish and Czech draughts variants and to Pool checkers in the USA. This is the most common rule, which applies to e.g.

As Wikipedia already details, there are many different draughts variants, but there are two common rules and one exotic rule according to which kings can capture.

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