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Canadian Draughts (Le Jeu Franc, Le Jeu de Dames Canadien)DLP Game   

Period Modern

Region Northern America

Category Board, War, Leaping, Diagonal

Description

Canadian Draughts is played on a 12x12 checker board and is popular in Canada (particularly Quebec) and was also known to be played in New England. Anecdotally, it is said to have been invented by French settlers to Quebec, but 12x12 boards are known from Europe before this. Played on a 12x12 board with 30 pieces per player. Otherwise, it follows the rules of International Draughts.

Rules

Played on a 12x12 board with 30 pieces per player, arranged on the dark squares. Pieces move diagonally one or can jump an opponent's adjacent player to capture it. Pieces can move forward or backwards. When a piece reaches the opposite edge of the board from its starting position, it becomes a king and can may move and jump over any number of spaces diagonally. Captures are compulsory and the maximum number of jumps must be made. Winning is achieved by capturing all the opponent's pieces or by blocking them from moving.

Murray 1951: 81.

These rules were taken from the Standard ruleset.

All Rulesets

Described rulesets
Standard Standard ruleset.
Huff Rule Includes the huff rule.

Origin

Canada

Ludeme Description

Canadian Draughts.lud

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Reference

Murray 1951: 81.

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Sources

Anonymous. 1875. Le jeu de dames. L'Opinion Publique 6(48), 2 December 1875, 575.

Murray, H.J.R. 1951. A History of Board-Games Other Than Chess. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

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Identifiers

DLP.Games.26


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