In other game variants like international draughts, a king can make a flying move any distance in a line of unoccupied squares, always diagonally. It’s also free to make multi-jumps, the same way as simple pieces. It acquires, then, more power with the ability to make backwards moves and captures. A king is differentiated from a simple piece by placing an another simple piece on top of When a simple piece lands on a square in the last row starting from your side of the board, it becomes a king.

A capture in a multi-jumps way is possible when finishing a simple capture you have another possible valid capture, then you can continue jumping. And the player with all his pieces being eaten or are being blocked and is not free to make a move, loses.Ī simple piece (men, also called pawn or stone) move only one square forward in diagonal lines, and capture any of the opponent’s pieces by jumping to the empty square beyond it. Or he must block them and prevent his enemy to make any To play and win a checkers game, in most of the variants, the player must capture all his opponent’s pieces and remove them from the board. Possibility, you must take it because in most official rules (except some of them) capturing is obligatory. If a square, in a diagonal line, is empty you are free to move to it. The players is not free to move or jump on all the game-board’s squares, only the dark ones are used. Once this piece is jumped (over it), it must be removed from the gameboard. A jump can be made only if the opponent’s piece is in an adjacent filed, with the one

All the moves must be made with one piece in the diagonal dark empty squares. Opponents, in alternate turns, should not One of them with the dark pieces, and the other with the light ones. You can play it asĪ beginner or expert, for free or for money, on a checkers-board or online against a computer and even on your android phone, iOS or iPad.Ĭheckers is an online or offline board game played by 2 persons, each one on a side. Its a fun and challenging two-players game for all ages with friends. Checkers, variant of Draughts (drafts), is by far one of the most played board games in the world after Chess.

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