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Croatian mathematics professor, and international draughts champion. It removes the sideways movement of men and replaces it with diagonally forwards movements. It also fills the back ranks with men, and requires that pieces be removed at the end of the turn rather
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A player wins if the opponent has no legal move, either because all his pieces are captured or he is completely blocked. Murray mentions a Dama variant where the king versus single man leads to the King’s holder winning. He owes this rule to the
Palestinian player, Hilmi Samara, but it is
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forwards or sideways one square, capturing by means of a jump; they cannot move or capture backwards or diagonally. When a man reaches the back row, it promotes to a
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