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  2. English draughts - Wikipedia

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    English draughts (British English) or checkers (American English), also called straight checkers or simply draughts, [note 1] is a form of the strategy board game checkers (or draughts). It is played on an 8×8 checkerboard with 12 pieces per side.

  3. How to win at 5 classic board games - AOL

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    Connect 4: Drop your disc in the bottom, middle column. Even if both players play perfectly, you will always win within 41 moves. Chess: Checkmate in 4 moves. Using your bishop for protection ...

  4. Solved game - Wikipedia

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    The game is a draw. There are only two unique first moves if you discard mirrored positions. One forces the draw, and the other gives the opponent a forced win in 15 moves. Pentago Strongly solved by Geoffrey Irving with use of a supercomputer at NERSC. The first player wins. Quarto Solved by Luc Goossens (1998). Two perfect players will always ...

  5. International draughts - Wikipedia

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    International draughts (also called international checkers or Polish draughts) is a strategy board game for two players, one of the variants of draughts. The gameboard comprises 10×10 squares in alternating dark and light colours, of which only the 50 dark squares are used.

  6. Game of the Day: Checkers - AOL

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    Today's Game of the Day is good ol' Checkers. You know the rules: you can only move diagonally and you can't move backwards. If you're in position to jump over an opponent's piece, you have to do it.

  7. Chinook (computer program) - Wikipedia

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    Chinook is a computer program that plays checkers (also known as draughts). It was developed between the years 1989 to 2007 at the University of Alberta, by a team led by Jonathan Schaeffer and consisting of Rob Lake, Paul Lu, Martin Bryant, and Norman Treloar.

  8. Game of the Day: Checkers - AOL

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    Checkers, also called Draughts or "straight checkers", is a form of the checkers board game played on an 8x8 board with 12 pieces on each side that may only initially move and capture diagonally ...

  9. Checkers - Wikipedia

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    Checkers is played by two opponents on opposite sides of the game board. One player has dark pieces (usually black); the other has light pieces (usually white or red). The darker color moves first, then players alternate turns. A player cannot move the opponent's pieces. A move consists of moving a piece forward to an adjacent unoccupied square.