Le site du jeu de dames  The International Draughts Site

What's this game ?

International draughts is played on a 10x10 board in most French-speaking countries (France, Belgium, Switzerland, Canada, and the African continent) and also in the Netherlands, and in the ex-soviet union countries.
You can learn the game rules with an illustrated page in a few minutes by clicking here.
For those who do not want to take this time, here is a summary of the main rules:

• Taking is compulsory (both forward and backward)
• When you have some choice between different captures, you must take as many pieces as possible. The quality of the taking piece or the taken pieces is of no importance
• You can move a king on a diagonal (as many squares as you want). When taking with a king, you can change way as often as necessary in order to take more pieces. Kings do not need to stop right after the last taken piece
• A piece is promoted to king if it stops on one of the last row's squares

Feel free to have a look at the comprehensive rules.

The best players in the world come from the ex-soviet union countries. If they do not win a tournament, it means that a dutchman or a Senegalese does. The current world champion is Alexei Tchizov. He is Russian.
The first competitions took place in Europe at the end of last century. Till 1947, most titles were won by French players (Cocorico!!!) and if not by Dutch players. Unfortunately (for us), sovietic players, who already played draughts on 8x8 board, came to 10x10 board after world war II, and quickly managed to get a world champion.

World champions

Volmac Rating

The volmac rating is the international rating given to every international player. This is the equivalent of the Elo rating for Chess.