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  Croda Rules: Movement 

The rules mention men and kings. A king is a promoted man. If the difference doesn't matter, they may also mention pieces, for instance 'the number of pieces on the board'.

The diagram shows the board and the pieces in initial position. There are two players, black and white. White begins. Players move - and must move - in turn.

Object
If a player has no legal move he loses the game. This may come about either by being eliminated or being blocked completely.

Capture
Capture has precedence over a non-capturing move. If the player to move has no capture to make, he has the following options:

• Moving a man
• Moving a king

A king is a promoted man.

Moving a piece
A man moves one square forward, either straight or diagonally. The diagonal move of a man is the only diagonal move in the game. All other moves, whether capturing or non-capturing, are orthogonal only. If a man ends its move on the opponent's backrank, it promotes to king. This marks the end of the move.

A king moves any number of unobstructed squares horizontally or vertically, like the rook in Chess. Kings may not move diagonally.

An important detail concerning promotion has to be addressed. Since men capture by jumping opponent's pieces forward, sideways and backward, a situation may arise where a man, in the course of a capture, visits the backrank without ending its move on it.
Be it first established that completing the capture has priority!

• In order to promote, a man must end its move on a square of the back rank
• If a man, in the course of a capture, visits a square of the back rank without ending its move on it, it does not promote!