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How To Play CheckersPlaying Checkers Learning how to play Checkers can be rewarding, because Checkers is a game that adults and kids can play competitively together, unlike Chess (usually). American Checkers, called “English Draughts” or, more regularly, just “Draughts” in the United Kingdom, is simple and quick to learn. Once you learn Checkers, you can play the game over and over again, because play is fluid enough and just complicated enough to make every game of draughts different. At the same time, Checkers is a decidedly less complicated game than Chess, which is played on a similar board, since all the pieces in checkers have the same abilities, while there are 6 different Chess pieces with different movement abilities – and much less rigid movement capabilities. Setting Up the Checkerboard Checkers is played on a board that is 8×8 spaces, with those spaces alternating in color between red and black. Each player begins game play with 12 Checkers (one team red, one tea black), while each player occupies one side of the checkerboard. Each side’s 12 Checkers are placed on the three rows closest to the player, 4 apiece per row. These checkers are only placed on the black squares and never the red squares. A Game of Checkers When starting a game of checkers, flip a coin to see which side goes first: black or red. A player can move one check pieces forward per turn. A checker can only move one space ahead at a time, and only on the black spaces. Checker pieces cannot be move backwards: only towards the opponent’s side of the checkerboard. A checker piece can move two spaces to “jump” an opponent’s checkerpiece, but only if there is an open space directly on the opposite side of that piece. When a checker piece is jumped, that piece is considered captured and is removed from the board. This is the strategy of Checkers: to remove the opponent’s pieces from the board. An alternate way to win at Checkers is to force an opponet to where they cannot move their remaining pieces (usually when few checkers remain). One checker can jump multiple opponent checkers, if there are open space on the other side of those checkers. This is highly sought after in Checkers, while a player seeks to avoid having their opponent do the same. While it might be to your advantage to have one checker jumped in order to either then jump an opponent’s piece (or two pieces), it is seldom to your advantage to have two checkers jumped on one turn. Crowning in Checkers If you can move one of checkers to the exact opposite side of the board, that checker piece is “crowned”. Crowning occurs when you stack one checker on top of the other (they are made to fit together this way). The crowning checker is always one of your own checkers, always taken from those checkers captured by the opponent. (It’s hard to imagine you could proceed to the other side of the board without having at least one checker removed from the checkerboard.) A crowned king has the ability to then move back and forth across the board, always staying on black and always moving only one spot, or jumping like an uncrowned checker piece would. Despite these limitations, this is a huge advantage, because you have essentially flanked you opponent and can therefore attack them from the rear, while your opponent’s uncrowned checkers can only move in one direction. Checkers Endgame Once checkers on one or both sides have been crowned, the checkers endgame scenario is not far away. One side will quickly begin to capture the other side’s checkers, eventually either capturing all the opposing checkers or trapping the remaining checkers where they can no longer move in any direction. When this has happened, you have won the game of Checkers and it’s time to start over. That’s how you play Checkers. Related Posts How To Play Chinese Checkers 6 Responses to “How To Play Checkers”Leave a Reply |
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