Talk:International draughts

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Movement

How far can a piece move if it is not jumping? One square only?

What about kings? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.58.249.111 (talk) at 1 January 2003

Men can only move one square, and must jump backwards if can jump backwards. Kings can move many squares, and must jump the greatest amount of checkers. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.193.44.199 (talk) at 24 June 2004

Captures

Rather than saying "In contrast to popular belief in the Netherlands, captures by crowned pieces do not have priority over captures by ordinary pieces.", wouldn't it be more accurate to say that captures by crowned pieces having priority over captures by ordinary pieces is a Dutch regional variant? — Gwalla | Talk 00:14, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC)

No, the idea is just ignorance and misconception. Not a local variant. Andries 14:30, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC)

No, if people actually play that way, then the article should say so, without POV. 71.192.115.15 (talk) 17:39, 2 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Comparison to other Draughts

This page should be updated to achieve the same look and information of other Draught pages, notably, the English draughts page. It doesn't include things like game complexity. 70.111.251.203 14:03, 27 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Feel free to find a source of that information that the article can cite. 71.192.115.15 (talk) 17:41, 2 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

History?

When was this developed? Where? Why does it have the "Polish" name"? These things need to be included in the article. ChozoBoy (talk) 01:11, 31 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yes that is a great NEED. --P64 (talk) 20:32, 19 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

A good accounting is given in: Murray, H. J. R. (1978). "§4.3.7 Polish draughts". A History of Board-Games other than Chess (Reissued ed.). Hacker Art Books Inc. pp. 80–81. ISBN 0-87817-211-4. Ihardlythinkso (talk) 03:09, 20 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Partly solved

This article is in the Partly solved category - but no information to that end is included in the article.Jonpatterns (talk) 12:35, 31 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@ 77.131.35.86 (talk) 13:49, 1 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Promotion and jumping backwards

The current text states: "When it reaches the edge but have the opportunity to jump backwards, he may not do so. He must first be crowned and at the next move he may move backwards." This seems contradictory with [1]: "A piece is only crowned if the piece finishes the move on the final square. So, if a piece moves onto and off the final row during the course of a capturing move, and does not finish on the final row, it is not crowned." This is also in line with rule 4.13 of FMJD: "A piece is only crowned if the piece finishes the move on the final square. So, if a piece moves onto and off the final row during the course of a capturing move, and does not finish on the final row, it is not crowned." Am I missing something? For now I'll change the article to reflect this, but perhaps this rule was changed over time, or has variations? effeietsanders 05:35, 12 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Looking more carefully, this seems to have been introduced by an anonymous contributor a few months ago. I suspect it was incorrect and possibly vandalism. effeietsanders 05:41, 12 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]