DRAUGHTS

1. Description
2. Rules
3. Instructions
4. Install colorama
5. Install pip

Description

Draughts is a board game for two opponents. The game consists of moving the pieces diagonally through the red or squares of a board of 64 squares with the intention of eating (capturing) the pieces of the opposing player passing over those pieces.

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Rules

• Draughts is played by two opponents, on opposite sides of the ? gameboard.

• One player has the green pieces; the other has the yellow pieces.

• Players alternate turns.

• A player may not move an opponent's piece.

• A move consists of moving a piece diagonally to an adjacent >unoccupied square.

• The pieces can only move one square at a time except when they >are eating an enemy piece

• If the adjacent square contains an opponent's piece, and the >square immediately beyond it is vacant, the piece may be eated (and >removed from the game) by jumping over it.

• Only the red squares of the checkered board are used.

• Capturing is mandatory

• Normal pieces can only be moved forward (where the opponent's >pieces are located at the beginning of the game)

• Queen pieces can be moved back and forth but the same amount of >squares as normal pieces

• The game ends when one of the two players run out of pieces

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Instructions

• Download and install python, here's the link

• Install Colorama library

• Contain all project files in the same folder

• run the draughts_game.py file in the system console

• follow the instructions of the game presented on the console

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Install colorama

colorama is currently installable from PyPI:

  pip install colorama

Install pip

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Install pip

On windows

Once you’ve confirmed that Python is correctly installed, you can proceed with installing Pip.

1. Download get-pip.py to a folder on your computer.

2. Open a command prompt and navigate to the folder containing get-pip_py

3. Run the following command:

   python get-pip.py
   

4. Pip is now installed!

On Linux Systems

To install pip in Linux, run the appropriate command for your distribution as follows:

• Install PIP On Debian/Ubuntu

  # apt install python-pip	#python 2
  # apt install python3-pip	#python 3
  

• Install PIP On CentOS and RHEL

  # yum install epel-release 
  # yum install python-pip
  

• Install PIP on Fedora

  # dnf install python-pip	#Python 2
  # dnf install python3		#Python 3
  

• Install PIP on Arch Linux

  # pacman -S python2-pip	        #Python 2
  # pacman -S python-pip	        #Python 3
  

• Install PIP on openSUSE

  # zypper install python-pip	    #Python 2
  # zypper install python3-pip	#Python 3
  

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