Checkersチェッカー

Jump the other side's pieces off the board. Capturing is forced, and a king moves both ways.

Descended from alquerque, a jumping-capture game played around the Mediterranean and the Middle East for centuries; a French rule-maker is said to have set it on a chessboard and added the forced capture around 1100. The English form the site plays here was written down in the 18th century and crossed the Atlantic largely unchanged, as American checkers.

Also known as Draughts, English Draughts, American Checkers.

Object目的

Leave the other side with no piece that can move: jump theirs off the board until none is left, or shut in whatever remains.
No lines and nothing placed after the start: every piece is down from the first move, and the whole game is in how they step and jump.

Board盤

A 8×8 board.
Played on the dark squares only, thirty-two of the sixty-four. Each side starts with twelve men filling its own three rows.

Play手順

A turn moves one piece: a man steps one square diagonally forward, onto an empty square.
Capturing is a jump over an adjacent enemy piece into the empty square beyond, and it is forced: if any of your pieces can capture, you must play a capture rather than a step, though you may choose which one.
A piece that captures and can capture again from where it lands keeps jumping in the same move. A man crowned partway through always stops there — only a king may carry a chain on, and only on a later move.
A man reaching the far row is crowned a king, and may then step and capture backward as well as forward.
The game ends the moment a colour has no piece that can move: none left, or every one shut in.

House rules細則

Either colour may open, or the first stone may be drawn by lot.
It is a draw once forty moves each have gone by in which only kings have moved and nothing has been taken.
The threat reading, hints and the chance-of-winning bar are switched off: there are no lines here, only pieces jumping.
8×8, played on the dark squares only — thirty-two of the sixty-four. Twelve pieces a side, filling the first three rows.

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