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Everything on this site about dama outside the board itself: where the word splits into five different games, how each tradition plays, and how it all lines up with the checkers and draughts you may already know.
- Dama vs. Checkers vs. Draughts: What's the Actual Difference?
Checkers and draughts are one game with two names. Dama is several games with real rule differences. Here's how the three words split apart.
- Filipino Dama: Rules and the Street-Corner Tradition
Filipino dama plays like Brazilian checkers on a mirrored board, and it's as often played with bottle caps as a real set. The ruleset and its roots.
- Flying Kings in Dama: How Each Tradition Handles the King
How Spanish, Turkish and Italian dama each handle the crowned king: one glides diagonally, one moves like a rook, one barely moves at all.
- How to Play Dama Online (Free, No Download)
Learn how to play dama, the Spanish dama board game, then jump into a free browser game against the computer. No account, no app, no download.
- Turkish Dama: Rules, and Why the Pieces Move Straight
Turkish dama drops the diagonal: straight-line moves, 16 men a side, rook-style kings and vanishing captures, plus why it isn't playable here.
- What Is Dama? One Word, Five Different Board Games
Dama isn't one game. It's a data group, a visa program, a genus of deer, and five checkers traditions from Istanbul to Manila. How to tell them apart.