Checkers

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Variants

International Checkers

International Checkers, also known as "Dame 100", is one of the most popular variants of checkers worldwide. It is played on a 10x10 board. The pieces move diagonally across the board.

10x10 Game Board
Long king moves enabled
Backwards capture allowed
Must take maximum men

English Checkers

English Checkers, sometimes also known as "American Checkers", is played on an 8x8 board. The pieces move diagonally.

8x8 Game Board
Long king moves disabled
Backwards capture not allowed
Must take first men

Brazilian Checkers

Brazilian Checkers, also known as "Damas", is played on an 8x8 board. Here, the pieces also move diagonally, and similar to Russian Checkers, pieces can jump backward.

10x10 Game Board
Long king moves enabled
Backwards capture allowed
Must take maximum men

Russian Checkers

Russian Checkers, also known as "Russian variant" or "Shashki", is played on an 8x8 board. The pieces move diagonally, and there is the possibility of capturing and jumping backward.

8x8 Game Board
Long king moves enabled
Backwards capture allowed
Must take men

Italian Checkers

Italian Checkers, also known as "Dama Italiana", is played on an 8x8 board. The peculiarity here is that pieces can only move forward, not backward. Once a piece reaches the opponent's last row, it becomes a "Dama" (King) and can move in any direction.

8x8 Game Board
Long king moves disabled
Backwards capture not allowed
Must take maximum men
King is immune to men capture

Spanish Checkers

Spanish Checkers, also known as "Damas Españolas", is played on an 8x8 board.

8x8 Game Board
Long king moves disabled
Backwards capture allowed
Must take maximum men

Tanzanian Checkers

The uniqueness of Tanzanian Checkers lies in the fact that it is played on an 8x8 board, but only on the dark squares. This means that the game pieces can only move diagonally, resulting in a strategically challenging game.

8x8 Game Board
Long king moves enabled
Backwards capture not allowed
Must take men

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What is Checkers?

Checkers is a classic two-player strategy board game where the objective is to capture all of your opponent's pieces or block them so they cannot move.

What is the goal of the game?

The goal of Checkers is to capture or block all opponent's pieces so that the opponent cannot make any valid moves.

How do the pieces move?

The pieces can move diagonally forward but only onto the dark squares. A piece can move one square forward diagonally upward or downward if that square is vacant. Pieces can also move backward when they become a King.

What are King pieces?

When a piece reaches the opponent's last row, it becomes a King piece. A King piece can move both forward and backward and has more options to capture other pieces.

How to capture a piece?

To capture a piece, the player must jump over one of their opponent's pieces to an unoccupied square by moving two squares diagonally. The jumped piece is removed from the board.