In American Checkers, known also as English draughts the board consists of 64 squares (8x8 checkerboard). On the other hand international draughts is played on 10x10 gameboard, which means 100 squares.
King. No "flying kings" - similarly to American checkers a king can only move one square and capture forwards as well as backwards. A unique feature of the Italian variant of draughts is that a regular piece is not able to capture a king.
Huffing has been abolished by both the American Checker Federation and the English Draughts Association. Two common rule variants, not recognized by player associations, are: That capturing with a king precedes capturing with a regular piece. (In such a case, any available capture can be made at the player's choice.)
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Players take turns to move a piece of their own colour. Any piece that reaches the far edge of the board is immediately crowned and is thereafter known as a "King". The act of crowning is a physical one - another piece of the same shade is placed on top of the piece in order to distinguish it from an ordinary piece.
It is played on an 8×8 checkerboard with 12 pieces per side. The pieces move and capture diagonally forward, until they reach the opposite end of the board, when they are crowned and can thereafter move and capture both backward and forward.
Play Un-crowned pieces can only move diagonally forwards but can capture diagonally forwards AND backwards. A Queen moves by diagonally traversing any number of unoccupied squares. Capturing is compulsory and where there is a choice, the move that captures the greatest number of pieces must be made.
In chess, we can only force certain moves, attack the pieces and it is harder for us to predict what will be the opponent's choice, whether he will capture our piece or not. It is much more interesting in draughts, when the opponent makes one mistake and faces a combination, then he remains without a solution.