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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. The pieces move and capture diagonally forward, until they reach the opposite end of the board ...

  3. Checkers - Wikipedia

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    Checkers[note 1] (American English), also known as draughts (/ drɑːfts, dræfts /; British English), is a group of strategy board games for two players which involve forward movements of uniform game pieces and mandatory captures by jumping over opponent pieces. Checkers is developed from alquerque. [1]

  4. History of chess - Wikipedia

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    The 12th-century Lewis chessmen in the collection of the National Museum of Scotland. The history of chess can be traced back nearly 1,500 years to its earliest known predecessor, called chaturanga, in India; its prehistory is the subject of speculation. From India it spread to Persia, where it was modified in terms of shapes and rules and ...

  5. 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 ...

  6. Chinese checkers - Wikipedia

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    Diamond game (Japanese: ダイヤモンドゲーム) is a variant of Chinese checkers played in South Korea and Japan. It uses the same jump rule as in Chinese checkers. The aim of the game is to enter all one's pieces into the star corner on the opposite side of the board, before opponents do the same. Each player has ten or fifteen pieces.

  7. Connect Four - Wikipedia

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    Connect Four (also known as Connect 4, Four Up, Plot Four, Find Four, Captain's Mistress, Four in a Row, Drop Four, and Gravitrips in the Soviet Union) is a game in which the players choose a color and then take turns dropping colored tokens into a six-row, seven-column vertically suspended grid. The pieces fall straight down, occupying the ...

  8. Staunton chess set - Wikipedia

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    Staunton chess set. The Staunton chess set is the standard style of chess pieces, [1][2] recommended for use in competition since 2022 by FIDE, the international chess governing body. [3][4] The journalist Nathaniel Cooke is credited with the design on the patent, and they are named after the leading English chess master Howard Staunton, who ...

  9. Checkerboard - Wikipedia

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    Checkerboard. A checkerboard (American English) or chequerboard (British English; see spelling differences) is a game board of checkered pattern on which checkers (also known as English draughts) is played. [1] Most commonly, it consists of 64 squares (8×8) of alternating dark and light color, typically green and buff (official tournaments ...

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