SPANISH DRAUGHTS.

This variation is played on a board like that used in the English game and with the same number of men It is played with the double corner to the left of the player, instead of to the right as in the English game. There are several ways in which the movements of the pieces in the two games differ. The laws and methods of the English game hold good, except in the following instances:

When there are a good many pieces en prise—that is, in a position to be taken—on various parts of the board, it is compulsory for the player to make the cap tures with the man that takes the greatest number.

Sometimes the game is varied by playing with eleven men and a piece called Dama (king), or with ten men and two Damas. In these cases the king, or Dama has the right to move as many squares as he likes in diagonal direction from the square which he occupies. The king has a right to any of his adversary's men on a diagonal commanded by him, provided, of course, that there are one or more vacant squares behind the man. Should there be en prise one or more men on a diagonal crossing the diagonal that he commands, he must turn off at the angle and make the capture and every other capture that he can make.

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