In all Draughts variants, the following rules apply:

• Players take turn by moving one piece
• Pieces can move to an adjacent empty position
• An adjacent opponent piece can be captured by jumping over it (which implies the next position is available)

  

• When possible, several captures can be performed at the same round (with the same piece)

R.C. Bell proposed the additional Alquerque rules:

• The board and initial position is the following:

  

• Pieces moves along the drawn lines, forward or on the side, but not backward
• A piece cannot return to the position it just left
• A piece that reached the last row cannot move, except for capturing
• White starts
• Capture is compulsory
• Captured pieces are removed after all captures are done
• A player who cannot play any move loses the game