If you do not agree, close the page. The note covers computer games, a shared device, and online rooms. The wording may move when the board does; a material change will show up here.
What you are sitting at
This is a free browser table for English draughts — practice, a lesson, a game with someone you know. It is not a rated match server, not a coaching desk, and not a bureau that certifies a game record.
We may change the layout, the search strength, room behaviour, or which tools are present, without a separate notice. The page is offered as it stands. We do not promise that it will run without a hitch on every device or every network.
How you may use it
Play, teach, and rewind a game for personal, non-commercial use.
Stay inside the law. Do not harass anyone, cheat a room, flood the lobby, attack the service, or otherwise get in the way of other players.
Do not dodge a room’s limits, pretend to be the other seat, or drive the page with a script that opens rooms or fires requests in bulk.
Anything you attach to a message — a screenshot, for example — should be something you have a right to send.
Which draughts this is
English and American draughts: an 8×8 dark-square board, Black to play, a hop you cannot decline, a king that still steps one square. Not FMJD 10×10, not the star-shaped parlour game. The Rules page is the long form.
The three tables are not identical
Against the computer, and on one shared device, you have a hint, undo, and a move-by-move rewind.
In a room, an accepted move is sent to the other board. There is no hint and no undo. Either player may offer a draw or resign.
A room is opened with a link. There is no ladder and no machine that sits you across from a stranger by rating.
The computer is a practice partner
Hops and hints come from search that runs in this browser. They are for practice. They may not be the best move, they are not a lesson we owe you, and they are not a rating. The opponent has no title.
The page, the words, the mark
The design, the copy, the mark, and the way this board behaves belong to Ply Yard or to the people who licensed them. Do not copy, mirror, or scrape the site in bulk for a doorway farm or a misleading copy.
If something breaks
To the extent the law allows, Ply Yard is not liable for loss that comes from using the page or from being unable to use it — a vanished local game, a slow device, a dropped network, a closed room, or a hop the computer chose that you later dislike.
You accept the ordinary risk of sending a link to another person. Do not post a private room address where you do not want extra seats.
The privacy note sits next door
How local games, room traffic, and browser storage are handled is on the Privacy Policy page. Using this site also means you have read that note.
Questions about these limits
Write to contact@plyyard.com and name checkers.plyyard.com.