Turkish Dama

Set up each player's twelve pieces on the second and third rows of squares directly in front of them, leaving the middle two rows empty.

Unlike Western checkers, pieces here move straight forward, backward, or sideways one square at a time, never diagonally.

Capture an opponent's piece by jumping it in a straight line and landing on the empty square beyond, and captures are mandatory whenever available.

A piece that reaches the far row is crowned and gains the ability to slide any distance in a straight line, forward or backward.

A player who has no pieces left, or whose remaining pieces cannot move, loses the game.