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Pleasant Draughts (Le Jeu Plaisant de Dames; Plaisant, Pleasant)
Ruleset: Pleasant Draughts

Game

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Period(s)

Modern

Summary

Rules for Pleasant Draughts.

Description

These are the rules for Plesant Draughts as played in seventeenth century France and England.

Rules

Played on an 8x8 board with each player having twelve pieces. Pieces move diagonally one space forward, and can capture opponent's pieces by jumping them if they are adjacent. Capturing is not mandatory. Multiple captures are allowed. Once pieces reach the opposite side of the board from their starting position, they become kings and can move diagonally either forwards or backwards. The goal is to capture all of the opponent's pieces.

Concepts

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Reference

van der Stoep 1984: 146-147.

Other Rulesets

Origin

England

Identifiers

DLP.GameRulesets.882

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