(Dameo is a checkers variant by Aleh Tapalnitski.)
Dhéluss is a two-player game of Salarvyá whose name means "Fleets". It is similar in some ways to Terran checkers. It is known all throughout the Five Empires, but especially in Salarvyá where most of the best players are from, and there is a sophisticated culture of competitive play.
It is played on a board with an eight-by-eight grid of intersections, typically printed on blue or green fabric and stretched over wood. Each player has 18 pieces. As in Terran checkers, two regular pieces (galleys) may be stacked to represent a promoted piece (a flagship).
A galley's regular move is always forward, diagonally or straight ahead, to an empty adjacent space. If they start adjacent to a friendly piece or line of friendly galleys (not flagships) in that direction, they may hop directly to the end if there is a free space.
Galleys capture orthogonally only, but in any direction, in simple hops over adjacent enemy pieces.
Flagships move any number of empy spaces in any direction. Like galleys, they capture orthogonally only, but they may do so via a long jump, which consists of moving any number of any spaces up to the piece, hopping over it to capture it, and then continuing to move any number of spaces desired afterwards -- all in the same direction.
All captures are mandatory, and in addition, the longest possible capture must be made. Pieces are not removed until the chain of captures are over and no piece may be hopped over twice during a capture.
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