i've come across variations on draughts as i've always called it we had a compendium of games that came in a cube it had six sides on it one of which was a checkered board for playing chess and draughts on with draughts apart from the traditional version there were the following variations dammspiel that's what the manual called it i think it's also called damenspiel you set them up a bit like chess but they were placed one square forward hard to explain the pieces moved almost identical to regular draughts diagonally one square i think the kings could move multiple squares a bit like the flying kings rule people have mentioned except that you stop short of capturing my memory is hazy on the issue turkish checkers similar set tup to dammspiel damenspiel it looks a bit like chess with draughts pieces the set up being on the same squares you'd use for draughts pieces move one square forwards and if i remember rigtly capture diagonally like standard draughts the kings i believe move like rooks in chess and jump only once in a straight line again my memory is hazy regarding the rules one game not listed in the manual was a game known by one of three names arrow draughts dagger draughts or kings played similar to standard draughts you play it corner to corner and set the pieces up as kings in the shape of an arrow or dagger you then play it like regular draughts i have played draughts with at least three opponents a relative somebody at school and somebody i once shared a house with and they were convinced that a single man can't take a king apparently according to this page that's the rules in italian draughts