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Basic Tactics - 3 kings versus 1

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Three kings versus one, White to move and win (author C. Manoury)
In Draughts, barring some 10.000 of over 2.500.000 three against one positions, one needs four kings to capture a lone king. The capture then is so easy that it suggests overkill.
Here's a position where three kings do the job, but it is the exception, not the rule.
Compared to Hexdame and especially Dameo, the situation in Draughts is embarrassing. The long range king came in a Trojan horse!