International Draughts on E-Dama

Play international draughts online on server e-dama.net! Become a member of World Correspondence Draughts Association

International draughts is a board game that is played on 10x10 board with black and white
squares. There are two players on opposite sides, with 20 pieces each, black for one player and white for the other.

If you know everything and just want to play draughts online, go directly to the list of our tournaments
Napoleon Buonaparte preferred draughts to chess, finding in this game the strategy of leading the battle. He is known never to leave his pearl draughts-board.

U.S. general Grant ascribed much of his military success to the mental sharpening derived from checkers

Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy even compares checkers to war strategies in his novel "War and peace"

We, developers of E-Dama are also draughts enthusiasts and we like to play this game. We offer the place where you can play this interesting game with people from all over the world. If you are strong player, you can play against grandmasters and very strong players at official international tournaments. If you are the beginner, you can play with players of similar strength. All you need is to learn the simple rules for playing international draughts, and to register yourself our permanently opened MINI and MIDI tournaments. If you want to learn more about how to play draughts, we can recommend Tjalling Goedemoed's free book "A Course in Draughts". You can freely download it and enjoy in learning draughts. You can even translate it and make it available for people who are not familiar with English language.

For the beginners, we reccomend our mini tournaments. Here is the (very short) description for one of these tournaments (written by the creator of E-Dama - Cedomir Igaly): "This tournament is 'open' because everybody can play, regardless of strength or
geographical location. It is also 'mini' because number of players is small so each player will play only few games. Good for people (like myself) who want to play some, but not too many games. It will start automatically when fifth player join. After that, new tournament will be opened for next five players etc."

If you want to play online only with some of your friends, you can invite him/her to play. Please take a look at our rating list. Maybe you will find some of your draughts colleagues there!

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About Goran Igaly

I was born in 1963 and learn to play draughts in 1980. Played actively for about 10 years. Start to play again correspondence games around 2006. Help brother Čedomir to maintain E-Dama since about 2010. Now I am the main contact person for E-Dama but the its real creator is my brother Čedomir who literarly wrote every line of code which drive e-dama.net website.

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