Checkers:

Checkers Skill game takes two players and 24 pieces (draughtsmen) on a chequered board. The players make one or more moves on the board by turns. The objective of the game is to wipe out all of the opponent’s pieces on the board or to have them put in a situation where it is not possible for the opponent to make a valid move.

Rules of Checkers Skill game

The players make one or more moves on the board by turns. Black player always starts the game. The game takes two players and 24 pieces (draughtsmen) on a chequered board.

The objective of the game is to wipe out all of the opponent’s pieces on the board or to have them put in a situation where it is not possible for the opponent to make a valid move.

The pieces can only be moved diagonally and can only move forward diagonally one square at a time.

You capture the opponent’s pieces by “leaping over” them with one of your own pieces, meaning: the opponent’s piece has to be placed diagonally in front of your own piece and the square just diagonally behind this square has to be vacant.

If you are in a position where you can beat one of the opponent’s pieces you are compelled to do so, even though this might threaten your overall position in the game.

It is possible to beat more pieces in the same turn. If the piece you have just beaten, one of the opponent’s pieces with ends on a square, where you are able to beat yet another of the opponent’s pieces, you must capture this piece and this continues until you cannot capture more of the opponent’s pieces, with the piece in question. If you are going to capture two of the opponent’s pieces, you have to do this using two moves (not two turns), first you capture one piece and after that the next piece. You cannot just move the piece to a position behind the other piece; you want to beat, in order to signal that you want to capture two pieces by one move.

If a piece has got the possibility of capturing two individual, of the opponent’s pieces, then you decide by yourself, which of the pieces you want to capture.

If a piece reaches the opponent’s back line this piece turns into a ‘king’ (this is shown by a star in the piece). A king has got the quality that it can move backwards, still only diagonally and one square at a time. A king can also beat one of the opponent’s pieces with a move backwards.

You lose the game if you cannot make a move, using the above outlined rules, or if you have got no pieces left on the board.