Popular ancient game, not known it is origin, from India or Turkey, our grandparents Knew about DAMA when they travelled to India by virtue of old trade and mutual visits and has become a game of Kuwaiti heritage.
Dama is a Two-Players Game. Played on a Squared-checker board with 64 squares, ( 8 rows× 8 Column ) .
The Dama game in this iPhone application … is a Player against the iPhone Artificial Intelligence ( A.I.).
The game consists of two teams: Each team consists of 16 Hatabah (soldier) and is characterized by each team in its own color, for example yellow and black (and can be any color for each team).
Traditional Game , Standing teams on a piece of cloth matrix of squares the 64 square, all Hatabah (representing troops) in the box and try to each team to advance the other team to get through, for the purpose of access to the back row the last of the boxes, to get around the other team, and when access to any square in the last row of the opponent , this Hataba becomes (Sheikh) with exceptional abilities.
The steps and moves combat Sheikh Hatabah like moving several squares forward or backward, right, left to eat wood/hataba (soldiers that are in walking line.