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Men can jump diagonally forward only; kings can jump in any diagonal direction. A jumped piece is considered "captured" and removed from the game. Any piece, king or man, can jump a king. Jumping is always mandatory: if a player has the option to jump, they must take it, even if doing so results in disadvantage for the jumping player.
Checkers [note 1] (American English), also known as draughts (/ d r ɑː f t s, d r æ f t s /; 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]
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).
One difference from the rules of English checkers is that a piece may capture both forward and backward. A player must capture an opponent's checker when possible (both forward and backward), but if two possibilities exist, the player may choose the sequence (even if one sequence has more jumps).
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!
Checkers: Casual Style. Checkers the fast way! Move where you want to, jump where you want to. You asked for it and Games.com listened! By Masque Publishing
While the standard rules allow hopping over only a single adjacent occupied position at a time (as in checkers), this version of the game allows pieces to catapult over multiple adjacent occupied positions in a line when hopping. In the fast-paced or Super Chinese Checkers variant, popular in France, [9] a piece may hop over a non-adjacent ...
Multiple-jump moves are possible if, when the jumping piece lands, there is another piece that can be jumped. Jumping is mandatory and cannot be passed up to make a non-jumping move. When there is more than one way for a player to jump, one may choose which sequence to make, not necessarily the sequence that will result in the most captures.