What Is Checkers?
Checkers is played on an 8x8 checkers board. Unlike in Chess, only the dark squares are being used to play.
Checkers is played on an 8x8 checkers board. Unlike in Chess, only the dark squares are being used to play.(pic a board with no numbers)
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Board and piece color The official colors of the board are white and green for the light and dark squrares. The colors of the pieces shall be red for the dark and white for the light pieces. Board numbering and piece order To record a game, the board is dark squares are numbered into 1-32.(pictures 1-5)
The numbering does start with the at 1 with the double corner (pictures) on the right-hand side.(double corner pictures)
Now to prepare the board to play the player with the dark pieces does place them on fields 1 to 15. The player with the light pieces does place them in the fields 21-32. (Picture of the game)Rules of the game
At the start of the game, the player with the dark pieces goes first. Jumps and capture of a piece
In checkers, all jumps must be taken. A jump must be made only over an adjacent piece. A piece cannot jump over empty squares. The jumped piece is then captured and removed from the board.
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Simple Jump
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Double and multiple Jumps
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Jumping the back row
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Multiple choice jumps
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Any choice will be fine.
The King and its movement
Most people will be familiar with the phrase king me. This is when one of the regular pieces reaches its opponents back row. This piece then becomes crowned and a king.
(pictures)Simple moves
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Jump and multiple jumps
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Jumping the back row
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Multiples choice jumps
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Win or Draw a game
A player wins by either capturing all of the other player’s pieces or putting them into a position where they cannot move. A player can also win if the other player resigns or forfeits the game as a result of a violation of the rules. A game is declared a draw when neither player can force a win. A draw can be declared any time both players agree to it. In addition to this in tournament play, there is a 40 move rule without a capture and three times repeat position draw. Those are the most important rules one should know.
For the full set of rules please do have a look at the World Checkers and Draughts Federation.