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As in all draughts variants, Russian draughts is played by two people, on opposite sides of a playing board, alternating moves. One player has dark pieces, and the other has light pieces. Pieces move diagonally and pieces of the opponent are captured by jumping over them. The rules of this variant of draughts are: Board.
Poddavki (Russian: поддавки́, IPA: [pədːɐˈfkʲi], "giveaway"), also known as Giveaway checkers, Suicide checkers, Anti-checkers or Losing draughts is a draughts (checkers) game based on the rules of Russian draughts, with the variation that a player wins if they have no legal moves on their turn, either by giving up all their pieces or having them all blocked.
The game is played according to the basic rules of Russian draughts, with the main difference being that draughts being jumped over are not removed from the playing field but are instead placed under the jumping piece (draught or tower). The resulting towers move across the board as one piece, obeying the status of the upper draught.
The Draughts-64 World Championship is the world championship for Brazilian and Russian draughts. The championship has been organized by the World Draughts Federation (FMJD) since 1985, the last few championship organized by the International Draughts Federation (IDF). The first championship was in Brazilian draughts.
The World Draughts Federation (Fédération Mondiale du Jeu de Dames) FMJD, is the international body uniting national draughts federations. It was founded in 1947 by four Federations: France, the Netherlands, Belgium and Switzerland.
The last championship was held in 1991 in connection with the disintegration of the USSR, total 51 championships were held. This competition was the largest competition in Russian draughts, only at 1993 took place first Draughts-64 World Championship in Russian draughts.
The Women's Draughts-64 World Championship has been organized by the World Draughts Federation (FMJD) since 1993 for Brazilian and Russian draughts. The first and almost other championships was held in Russian draughts. In Brazilian draughts was held championship in 2007 and in 2018.
Viktoriya Motrichko started playing draughts at the age of 10 and currently specializes in draughts-64 (Russian and Brazilian versions).In these two variants she won numerous World and European junior championships starting 2002 when she became World and European champion among mini-cadets.