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In North America, the game has also been called cowboy checkers, and its board is sometimes printed on the back of checkerboards. Nine men's morris is a solved game, that is, a game whose optimal strategy has been calculated. It has been shown that with perfect play from both players, the game results in a draw. [3]
the side to move, B for Black, W for White Color 1 and Color 2 the color for the Square numbers that follow B for Black, W, and the sequence is unimportant. K optional before square number, indicates the piece on that square is a king, otherwise it is a man. Square number indicates the square number occupied by a piece.
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.
The best board game ever, Checkers, is here. Make your move, red or black, and king me!
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 ...
DTZ is the only metric which supports the fifty-move rule as it determines the distance to a "zeroing-move" (i.e. a move which resets the move count to zero under the fifty-move rule). [35] By definition, all "won" positions will always have DTZ ≤ {\displaystyle \leq } DTC ≤ {\displaystyle \leq } DTM.
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.
A special "sliding" move is used for moving a line of checkers similar to the movement rule in Epaminondas. By Christian Freeling (2000). [17] [18] [19] Hexdame: A literal adaptation of international draughts to a hexagonal gameboard. By Christian Freeling (1979). [20] Lasca: A checkers variant on a 7×7 board, with 25 fields used. Jumped ...