Brazilian draughts

Brazilian draughts is a leaping-capture board game played in Brazil. The Ludii record says it seems to have been invented and popularised there in the late nineteenth or early twentieth century, though its exact origins are not well documented. It is played on an eight by eight board with twelve pieces for each side, and pieces move one space diagonally. A capture is made by jumping an adjacent enemy piece into the empty space beyond it, and it may be made forwards or backwards. Capturing is compulsory whenever it is possible, a turn may chain several jumps, and the player must take the sequence that makes the maximum number of jumps. A piece that reaches the far side of the board at the end of its turn becomes a king, and a king can travel several spaces along a line in a single move.