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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.
Similar to Pool checkers with the exception of the main diagonal on the right instead of the left. A man reaching the kings row is promoted only if he does not have additional backwards jumps (as in international draughts). In an ending with three kings versus one king, the player with three kings must win in thirteen moves or the game is a draw.
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.
As in all checkers variants, Checkers is played by two people, on opposite sides of a checkers playing board, alternating moves. One player has black colored checkers pieces, and the other has ...
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.
You all know the rules to Checkers: you can only move diagonally forwards, and if you are placed diagonally to an opponent's piece, you hop over it and claim it for yourself! Getting to the other ...
Players try to form 'mills'—three of their own men lined horizontally or vertically—allowing a player to remove an opponent's man from the game. A player wins by reducing the opponent to two men (whereupon they can no longer form mills and thus are unable to win) or by leaving them without a legal move. The game proceeds in three phases:
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 ...