About Dama Game Online

Dama Game Online tracks a single word, dama, across every country that plays under it, and lets you play one of those traditions for free, right in your browser.

Why This Site Exists

"Dama" doesn't point to one game. Spain, Turkey, Italy, Brazil and Portugal, and the Philippines each play a game called dama, and the rulebooks don't match: board size, how far a king can move, even whether men can be captured backward all change from one tradition to the next. Most English-language sites cover one of these at a time, if any. This site's job is to lay out all five in one place, explain plainly how they differ, and let you actually play the versions our engine supports without hunting for a download.

What You Can Play

  • Dama (Spanish Draughts): flying kings, forward-only men, and the mandatory-capture rule with its kings tiebreak.
  • Filipino Dama: men that capture backward as well as forward, the most-pieces capture rule, flying kings, and a mirrored board.
  • Brazilian Damas: backward captures, flying kings, and the most-pieces rule with no tiebreak, on a standard board.
  • Portuguese Damas: forward-only pedras, flying damas, the most-kings tiebreak, the 20-move count and the Forçada.
  • Turkish Dama: every one of the 64 squares in play, men that step and jump forward or sideways, and kings that slide along ranks and files like a rook.
  • Italian Dama: short kings that move one square, men that may never capture a king, and the four-step Italian capture ladder.
  • Arab Dama: the dama of the Levant and the Gulf, the same rules as the Turkish board under its own name.

The Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish, Italian and Arab boards also exist in their own languages at /pt/, /es/, /tr/, /it/ and /ar/.

You can play the computer at four difficulty levels, or hand the device to a friend and play hot-seat on one screen. Every move is calculated in your browser. There's no server involved and nothing to sign up for.

Part of a Larger Family

Dama Game Online is part of the Checkers Online family of sites. Our sister site, Checkers Online, hosts nine playable checkers and draughts variants, including Spanish checkers against live human opponents, if the computer isn't giving you enough of a fight.

Get in Touch

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