Checkers

How to play Checkers

Checkers plays by English draughts rules. Men move and capture diagonally forwards, a capture is compulsory whenever one exists, and a jump that can continue has to continue — you make it one landing at a time and the board shows where the piece may go next. A man that reaches the far row is crowned and his move ends right there; kings step and capture in every diagonal direction.

The pieces that can legally move are ringed at the start of every turn, which matters most when a capture is waiting somewhere you were not looking.

You face a ladder of three opponents searching two, four and six moves ahead. A side with no legal move loses, and forty moves each without a capture or a crowning is a draw that gets replayed. A loss costs one of three lives.

Objective

Beat three opponents in turn by taking or blocking every one of their pieces.

Features

• Compulsory captures and multi-jumps made one landing at a time
• Crowning that ends the move, and kings that capture backwards
• Movable pieces and next landings highlighted every turn
• Three opponents searching two, four and six moves ahead
• A forty-move draw rule and three lives for the ladder

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