thanks Hexis, it clarifies a lot ! I wish I knew it before :)

mangue: You're welcome :)

And there is one more important rule regarding jumps in Czech checkers - the opponent's pieces that you have already jumped over are removed from the board AFTER the whole move is finished (in contrast to, e.g., Turkish checkers where they are removed during the jump and thus creating new jumping opportunities). However I am not sure whether this particular rule is correctly implemented here on BrainKing right now (several weeks ago I reported the bug concerning removing jumped opponent's pieces from the board during the jump to Fencer - he asked me for a link to official rules of Czech Checkers, I provided him with the link and since then I have received no other feedback from him ...)

Here is an example of this "unimplenmented" rule from one of my games:
Dáma (Hexis vs. Hackingnop)

(according to the official rules the move I was forced to play by BrainKing was illegal - I should have finished my jump at b4 (or somewhere else at the particular diagonal) because the already jumped pawn at e7 should be removed from board after my jump will be finished and therefore prevents me from jumping over the pawn at d6 ...)!

Hexis: Not “replaced”, but “removed”. :)

And the bug has not been fixed yet. Pieces are still removed right after you jump a piece, not after the entire move is made.

Pedro Martínez: Thanks for your correction - I wrote my answer in a hurry and didn't read it over before posting...

Pedro Martínez: That's a pity - however I admit that such a situation occurs very rarely. Any idea why it takes Fencer so long to fix this bug? In Turkish checkers, jumped opponent's pieces are removed during the move so this functionality is already implemented at BK...

In my last game of czech checkers, I had a situation where I could take an opponents checker with either my Queen checker or with an ordinary checker, the system only allowed me to move the Queen checker, is this a bug or is it part of the rules of the game.

oddson2003: It is OK - in Czech Checkers, you must capture with your queen if you can ("preference rule" in the table of specific rules of checkers variants)

http://brainking.com/en/GameRules?tp=29

????

Hi everybody!

Can someone tell my opponent (Robin Hood or Klaun or Pepe...i think he has some nicks) this game is a obvious draw Damas Checas (Robin Hood vs. Undertaker.)?

He plays very well, but don't know this easy draw. One queen in river against 3 queens is always draw, except if i commit some stupid move.

Thank you!

Hexis:
Thanks for this info regarding the queen having to jump over more than one piece as part of a multi-jump, but then why do the rules say '... but does not have to jump over two or more pieces at once'? Maybe the rules need to be tweaked a little.

moistfinger:
You are right that the rules are not written so that all the details are clear for someone not knowing the game.

Moreover, time to time there occurs a bug and therefore even a player who knows all the rules of this game can be surprised what the system (= BrainKing) allows to play.

However I think that the basic rules are clear enough (and if anyone gets in some suspicious position or situation, there are discussion boards such as this one to get help and advice).

I agree that the quotation you used

'... but does not have to jump over two or more pieces at once'

is not absolutely clear. The whole sentence is as follows:

'A queen does not have to land directly behind the captured piece, it can choose (when jumping) any other empty square in the line but does not have to jump over two or more pieces at once.'

I guess that this means, easily said, that before performing the second (and any other later) jump, you have to land... But you are right that the particukar quotation sounds somehow strange (especially when you MUST continue jumping if you have such an opportunity)...

moistfinger: It is a bad translation… the sentence should read “but must not jump over two or more pieces at once”.