Draughts is played on an 8 × 8 board, on the dark squares only. Each player starts with 12 men on the three rows nearest to them, and White moves first. A man moves one square diagonally forward.
You capture an opponent's piece by jumping over it to the empty square behind it. Capturing is compulsory, and a man captures backwards too. If you can capture again after a jump, you carry on capturing in the same move. When you can capture in more than one way, you choose, even if another way would take more pieces. A man that reaches your opponent's back row becomes a king, and if that happens during a capture, it carries on capturing as a king in the same move. A king moves and captures any distance along a diagonal, and after a capture it may stop on any empty square beyond the captured piece. You win when your opponent cannot move, because all their pieces have been captured or are blocked. The game is a draw if the players agree to one or if it goes on for a long time without progress.
Keep your men together, because a lone man is easy to capture. The men on your back row stop your opponent from getting a king, so don't hurry to move them. Because capturing is compulsory, you can give your opponent one man: they have to take it, and that opens the way for you to take two at once.