Italian Damone is a two-player abstract strategy board game from Italy.
Each player only has eight pieces to start the game, which is relatively small compared to most checker variants.
The pieces are ranked from high to low as Damone, Damas, and Pedine.
But among non-diagonal checkers, the game closely resembles Italian draughts and Dablot Prejjesne as these games have the common feature that pieces can only capture opposing pieces of the same rank or lower.
In the standard game, the player who captures all their opponent's pieces is the winner.
Alternatively, stalemating the enemy's pieces by not allowing them to move is a win for a player.
In some other variants, it is enough only for a player to capture all their opponent's Damones to win the game.
Pieces are played only on the black diagonal squares of a standard draughts board.
Pedines can never move or capture "backwards" which in this case would be toward the southeast direction (lower right corner of the board).
All pieces may move only one space diagonally onto a vacant black square on the board in a turn.
Both capturing lines have a Damone as their highest ranked piece, and therefore rule (iii) does not apply.
Both capturing lines have a Damone as their highest ranked piece, and therefore rule (iii) does not apply.
The highest piece in both capturing lines is a Damone, and therefore rule (iii) does not apply.
Each capturing line has the same number of Damones (only 1 each), and therefore rule (iv) does not apply.
The highest piece in both capturing lines is a Damas, and therefore rule (iii) does not apply.
Each capturing line has the same number of Damas (only 1 each), and therefore rule (iv) does not apply.
Each capturing line has the same number of Pedines (only 1 each), and therefore rule (vi) does not apply.