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Rules of Checkers
Figure 1 shows the basic starting position of a game of checkers: each player has twelve pieces, arranged on the dark-colored diagonals of an 8x8 square board. This example uses the official ACF colors -
Dama
Dama or Türk Daması is a variant of Checkers (Draughts) played in Turkey. It is known in the west as Turkish Draughts or Turkish Checkers. The game can be played online on BrainKing, Gamerz, igGameCenter -
Tiers
Tiers, also known as Ultra Checkers, is a complex variant of Checkers that allows players to upgrade their pieces beyond kings. It is played on a standard eight by eight checkers board with two opposing -
Checkers & Draughts Wiki
New pages Checkers& Draughts Wiki is an online encyclopedia about the board game checkers (also called draughts), focusing on the 8x8 variant commonly played in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Though most -
Filmography
Variants of the checkers family are often represented in films. Sometimes merely as decoration, often with a deeper, symbolic meaning. Film genres include documentaries, animations, comedies, science-fiction films, and thrillers. With more than 370 -
Checkers
Checkers (American English and Canadian English), also called American Checkers, Straight Checkers or, English Draughts (British English), is a popular board game all over the world. Unlike International Checkers, it is played on an eight -
GNU Free Documentation License
Version 1.2, November 2002 The purpose of this License is to make a manual, textbook, or other functional and useful document "free" in the sense of freedom: to assure everyone the effective freedom to -
Alex Moiseyev
Alex Moiseyev, b. February 19, 1959, is an American checkers player, and is the current (2009) 3-Move World Champion. He holds a master or grandmaster rating in checkers, Russian draughts, and 10x10 draughts, and -
Russkie Shashki
Russkie Shashki (Русские шашки), also known as Russian Checkers or Russian Draughts in the west, is a very popular variant of checkers in Russia. The game is also played in Belarus, Ukraine, Estonia and among -
Deutsches Damespiel
Deutsches Damespiel, often shortened to Dame and known outside of Germany as German Checkers or German Draughts, is the most common checkers variant played in Germany. The first book covering German Draughts was the 155 -
Nevskie Shashki
Nevskie Shashki ("New Checkers" - Невские шашки) is a modern checkers variant from Russia, which was created by L. Lenisdat. It was first described in the book Igra, Igra! by N. N. Belov in 1987. It -
Bashni
Bashni (башни - "Towers"), also called Stolbovye Shashki (Столбовые шашки - Column Checkers), is a variant of Russian Checkers. The Russian name of the game is often incorrectly transcribed as Bashne or even Bashnya. The game was -
Portable Draughts Notation
Portable Draughts Notation (.PDN) is the standard computer-processable format for recording Checkers games. This format is derived from Portable Game Notation, which is the standard chess format. PDN files are text files which must -
Tama
Tama (Տամա) is a variant of Checkers (Draughts) played in Armenia and wherever Armenians live today. It is known in the west as Armenian Draughts or Armenian Checkers. The game can be played online on -
Altdeutsches Damm-Spiel
Altdeutsches Damm-Spiel (Old German Checkers Game), also known as Altdeutsche Dame or (outside of Germany) as Gothic Checkers and Gothic Draughts, probably derives from the 17th century. Some people claim that it might have -
Mak-hot
Mak-hot (หมาก ฮอส), also transcribed as Makhos, is known outside of Thailand as Thai Checkers or Thai Draughts. It is the most popular boardgame in Thailand besides Mak-ruk (Thai Chess). The game can -
Odnocvetnie Shashki (1)
Odnocvetnie Shashki ("Monocrome Checkers" - Одноцветные шашки) was invented by the famous Russian Chess problemist P. S. Artamonov. This variant is played by two people on a 64-square checkerboard. The board is an 8×8 -
Odnocvetnie Shashki (3)
Odnocvetnie Shashki ("Monocrome Checkers" - Одноцветные шашки) was invented by the famous Russian Chess problemist P. S. Artamonov. This variant is played by two people on a 100-square checkerboard. The board is an 10×10 -
Odnocvetnie Shashki (2)
Odnocvetnie Shashki ("Monocrome Checkers" - Одноцветные шашки) was invented by the famous Russian Chess problemist P. S. Artamonov. This variant is played by four people on a 64-square checkerboard. The board is an 8×8 -
Odnocvetnie Shashki (4)
Odnocvetnie Shashki ("Monocrome Checkers" - Одноцветные шашки) was invented by the famous Russian Chess problemist P. S. Artamonov. This variant is played by four people on a 100-square checkerboard. The board is an 10×10 -
Give & Take
Give& Take (also spelled Give and Take) was designed by Christopher Elis from New York (USA). It was first published in GAMES Magazine in the early 1990s. The game is a variant of Turkish Checkers -
Jogo de Damas Clássicas
O Jogo de Damas Clássicas,também conhecido como Damas Portuguesas ou Calados Portugueses em países de língua inglesa, é a variante nacional de damas de Portugal. É um jogo muito popular. O Jogo de Damas -
Novgorodskie Shashki
Novgorodskie Shashki ("Novgorod Checkers" - новгородские шашки) is a three-person variant of checkers, which was created in Russia. The game, which is played on a regular hexagon, involves diplomacy and changing alliances. Its strategy is -
Chinook
Chinook is a computer program that plays English draughts (also known as checkers), developed around 1989 at the University of Alberta, led by Jonathan Schaeffer. Other developers are Rob Lake, Paul Lu, Martin Bryant, and -
Česká dáma
Česká dáma is also known as Czech Checkers or Czech Draughts in English-speaking countries. It is the most popular checkers variant in the Czech Republic. The game is a variation of German Checkers. Czech
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