<p>It depends on the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draughts" rel="nofollow">checkers/draughts variant</a> that you are playing:</p>

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<li>For American checkers / Britisch draughts (which are two names for the same game) and Italian checkers, <strong>kings are short-ranged</strong> and cannot jump over empty squares.</li>
<li>For all other variants (International/Russian/Spanish/Czech/Frisian/Thai draughts and Pool checkers), <strong>kings are long-ranged</strong> and can jump over empty squares as you indicated. </li>
</ul>

<p><strong>NOTE</strong>: in fact, for all but one (Thai draughts) of the long-ranged king variants, kings can also land on a sequence of adjacent empty squares behind a captured piece. In your notation, this would be patterns of the form <code>B- - -w- - -</code>, where the black king can land on any of the three <code>-</code> squares behind the white man.</p>

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<p>If there is a possible capture two or more fields away from a king like <code>b--w-</code> or <code>b-----w-</code> are those count as a compulsory/necessary jumps or not?</p>

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# How the forced capture rule works with crowned pieces( in international checkers or...)

(Asked by: username_0 on 2014-07-10)

If there is a possible capture two or more fields away from a king like `b--w-` or `b-----w-` are those count as a compulsory/necessary jumps or not?

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2014-08-02. Score: 1

It depends on the [checkers/draughts variant](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draughts) that you are playing:

* For American checkers / Britisch draughts (which are two names for the same game) and Italian checkers, **kings are short-ranged** and cannot jump over empty squares.
* For all other variants (International/Russian/Spanish/Czech/Frisian/Thai draughts and Pool checkers), **kings are long-ranged** and can jump over empty squares as you indicated.

**NOTE**: in fact, for all but one (Thai draughts) of the long-ranged king variants, kings can also land on a sequence of adjacent empty squares behind a captured piece. In your notation, this would be patterns of the form `B- - -w- - -`, where the black king can land on any of the three `-` squares behind the white man.


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