Players each have twelve draughtsmen on opposite sides of the board, arranged on black squares only, in three rows.
Once a man has reached the furthest rank of the board from the owning player, it becomes a king.
The game is a draw when it is theoretically impossible (i.e. with perfect play) to capture any of the opponent's pieces.
Although Czech draughts is itself a regional variant of the draughts game, the version played in the Slovak Republic is slightly different in that each player begins with only two ranks of men, and that the huffing rule is enforced: if a piece that must capture does not do so, the opponent may, at his option, take it before his own move.
Furthermore, if a player has no legal moves, but does have men on the board, the game is a draw.