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Checkers game guide

Purpose:

Two way to play:

Block your opponent so that they can no longer play

If you like challenges, capture all the opponent’s pieces

Set up:

You each have 12 pieces to place on the board. The square at the bottom left of you must be brown. All your pieces must be on brown squares. Follow the diagram below and off you go!

Game rules:

Now that everything is set up, how do we play?

Black pawns move first (draw straws to figure out who begins!)

Take turns playing and of course you can't skip your turn.

Pieces:

Pawns:

They move forward and diagonally. They cannot move backwards.

A piece making a non-capturing move may move only one square.

A piece making a capturing move leaps over the opponent’s pieces, landing in a straight diagonal line on the other side.

Only one piece may be captured in a single jump; however, multiple jumps are allowed on a single turn.

Important: If a player is able to make a capture, there is no option, the jump must be made no matter what the consequences.

The promotion:


When a piece reaches the furthest row from the player who controls that piece, it is crowned and becomes a Queen.

The piece which becomes a Queen has to stop on the row square, if it only crosses the square, it doesn’t work.

Important: You can decide to stop on this square to get your Queen. Your turn ends there. This is the only time you can stop during a capture.

The Queen:

One of the pawns that had been captured is placed on top of the Queen so that it is twice as high as a single pawn (it’s its queen's crown).

Queens are limited to move diagonally, but may move both forward and backward.

It is considered more powerful than the pawns.

Capture :

If more than one capture is available, the player is free to choose whichever they prefer.
BUT

You have to consider 2 things:

Quantitative:
capture the most pawns in one go

1st situation

Quantitative rule

In this configuration, the black pawn must take the second path. It captures 3 pieces instead of 2.

Bonus: On the second path, the piece is promoted and becomes a Queen (wonderful).

2nd situation

Qualitative rule

In this configuration, the black pawn must take the first path.

In these two cases, it captures 3 pieces but on the first path, there is a Queen.

In priority, you have to get rid of the opponent Queen.

Draw: 

There is a draw if:

The same position is repeated 3 times in a row.

20 successive strokes of a Queen are played without any piece captured.