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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.
Old school fun awaits you in Checkers! Today's Game of the Day is Checkers, the classic board game that everyone loves! Play free online Checkers with traditional rules (you must jump if possible).
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.
The rules are similar to the Spanish game, but a sequence that the king can capture must be captured first of all sequences of the same number of pieces. The rules are similar to the Spanish game, but the king, when it captures, must stop directly after the captured piece, and may begin a new capture movement from there.
Today's Game of the Day is that old-fashioned classic board game we all know and love: Checkers! You all know the rules to Checkers: you can only move diagonally forwards, and if you are placed ...
The starting position of pool checkers, as well as English draughts. As in the related game English draughts (also known as American checkers or straight checkers), the game is played on an 8x8 board with the double corner (corner without a checker) to each player's right. [1] The dark pieces player starts the game by making the first move.
If a jump is possible it must be done, even if doing so incurs a disadvantage. Multiple successive jumps forwards, backwards, or sideways in a single turn can and must be made if after each jump there is an unoccupied square immediately beyond the enemy piece. It is compulsory to make the highest shot value. Each king is worth a man and a half.
I was researching the mandatory jumping rule and have come to inconclusive results. Base on my research mandatory jumping can be enforced but is not "standard". Ehow's checkers rules do not suggest that jumping is forced. However suggests that it is. I went to Optime software's checkers rules and by default forced jumping is disabled. Optime ...