checkers
Sign in to saveCheckers (North American English), also known as draughts (; 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. The term "checkers" derives from the checkered board which the game is played on, whereas "draughts" derives from the verb "to draw" or "to move".
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Checkers is a two-player strategy board game played on a checkered board where players move identical pieces forward and must capture opponent pieces by jumping over them. The game has deep historical roots, developing from an earlier game called alquerque, and is known by different names around the world—"checkers" in North America and "draughts" in Britain.
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Key facts
- Game.title
- Checkers
- Game.italic title
- no
- Game.logo_alt
- checkers game
- Game.image_link
- File:CheckersStandard.jpg
- Game.image_caption
- Starting position for American checkers on an 8×8 checkerboard; (red) moves first.
- Game.years
- at least 5,000
- Game.players
- 2 <!--
- Game.ages
- 6+
- Game.playing_time
- Casual games usually last 10 to 30 minutes; tournament games last anywhere from about 60 minutes to 3 hours or more.
- Game.random_chance
- None
- Game.skills
- Strategy, tactics
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Article
28 sectionsContents
- General rules{{anchor|Rules}}
- Pieces
- Man
- King {{anchor|King|king}}
- Naming
- History
- Ancient origins
- Alquerque
- The Transition to Chess boards
- European developments
- Strategic evolution and the draw problem
- Variants
- Traditional
- Modern designs
- Computer checkers
- Computational complexity
- National and regional variants
- Flying kings; men can capture backwards
- Flying kings; men cannot capture backwards
- No flying kings; men cannot capture backwards
- Russian Column draughts
- Championships
- Federations
- Games sometimes confused with checkers variants
- See also
- Notes
- References
- External links
Checkers (North American English), also known as draughts (; 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. The term "checkers" derives from the checkered board which the game is played on, whereas "draughts" derives from the verb "to draw" or "to move".
The most popular forms of checkers in Anglophone countries are American checkers (also called English draughts), which is played on an 8×8 checkerboard; Russian draughts, Turkish draughts and Armenian draughts, all of them on an 8×8 board; and international draughts, played on a 10×10 board – with the last widely played in many countries worldwide. There are many other variants played on 8×8 boards. Canadian checkers and Malaysian/Singaporean checkers (also locally known as dam) are played on a 12×12 board.