Hello everybody

I am a draughts/checkers researcher. I know I should have posted this earlier.
Anyway, the best way to understand various checkers variants is to classify them to families and related variants. Last year, I wrote a paper on this topic. I always update it.The paper covers the checkers rules of the following families and related variants. My paper can be accessed here
https://www.academia.edu/28503616/A_Guide_to_Checkers_Families_and_Rules
Any comments or suggestions, please email me at sultan_ratrout@yahoo.com

Details of Draughts families
(A). Turkish Checkers Related Variants (Orthogonal) (Maximum Capture) (No Back-capture)
1-Turkish (Dama) 2-Arab (Dama) 3-Greek (Ntama) 4-Adigha (PhèkIèn) 5-Ossetian Keny
(B).International Checkers Related Variants (I) (Diagonal) (Back capturing) (Maximum Capture sequence)
1- International/ Polish (Dames/ Warcaby) 2-Ivorian/ Paraguayan (Dames) 3-Canadian ( Jeu de/Quebec Dames) 4-Sri Lankan (Dam) 5-South African (Dumm) 6-Brazilian (Minor Polish/ 64 polish) (Damas) 7-Filipino (Derecha) 7- Swazi (Mswati)

(B). International Checkers Related Variants (II)
1-Russian (Shashki) Spantsiretti (Russian 80 cells) 2-Bashni (Towers/ Russian Columns) (Stolbovye Shashki) 3- a-Pool :-American Pool/ Swedish/ Norwegian b-Unified Pool (Jake Kacher) 4-North German (Polish-German-Norwegian) 5-Jamaican a-Traditional Jamaican b-Unified Jamaican (Jake Kacher) 6-Ghanaian (Damii) 7- Laotian/Laos

(C).Turkish +International Checkers Related Variants (Orthogonal +Diagonal)
1-Armenian (Tama) Willy Schmidit most common (Tama) Heinz Machatscheck 2-Gothic (reconstructed by Blachetta) 3-Old German (Altdeutsche Dame) 4-Turkthic (Turkish Gothic) (Turkish-diagonal) 5-Croda (Croation) 6-Ossetian Checkers (Tama) Universal Checkers

(D).Frisian Checkeres Related Variants (Diagonal+ orthogonal) I
Flying kings move along unblocked diagonal rows only.
1-Frisian (Fries Dammen) 2-Siberian
(D). Frisian Checkers Related Variants (Diagonal+ orthogonal)
(II) Flying kings move along unblocked diagonal and orthogonal rows
1-Swedish (Marquern) [Billberg] 2-Danish (Makvar) [J?rgensen ] 3-Mats Winthers’ reconstrution including Marquern/ Makvar 4-Peter Michaelsen’s reconstrution including Marquern/ Makvar

(E) Spanish Checkers Related Variants (I) (Diagonal) (No Back capturing) (Maximum Capture)
1-Spanish (Dama) 2-Portuguese (Damas) 3-Argentinian (Dama) 4-Myanmar 5-Indonesian (Dam blas) 6-Malaysian/ Singaporean (Dam Haji/ Dum)
(E) Spanish Checkers Related Variants (II) (Diagonal) (No Back capturing) (Any Capture sequence)
1-Czech (Dama) 2-Slovak (Dama) 3-Thai (Makhos) 4-African-American Straight Checkers 5- Tanzanian (drafti) 6-German/ Swedish (Dame/ Damspel) 7-Central- South German/ Danish/ Finnish (Süddeutsche Dame/ Damspil Tammi)

(F)American Checkers Related Variants (Diagonal) (No back capturing)(No flying Kings)
1-American/ British (Checkers/ Draughts) 2-Italian (Dama)