Draughts Online
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Draughts is also known as English checkers. It's a strategy board games that is played by two players on the opposite side of the board. The player can only move their piece diagonally and can capture opponent's piece by jumping over it. The piece will then be removed from the game and the square will become vacant. Players will take turns, and only the black squares are used in the game.
- Checkers is a two-player game, where one player is assigned white checkers and the other red. The aim of the game is to capture the other player's checkers.
- How to Play Draughts (Checkers) The rules of draughts are quite straightforward. The game of draughts is played on a 64 square checkerboard with eight rows of alternating dark and light colored squares. There are two players and each begins the game with 12 draughts, each player having their own colour.
- Draughts is the common British English name while Checkers is the common name in American English. Gametable is an upcoming interactive entertainment company for the desktop and mobile world. We currently have four free online games- hidoku, dots and boxes.
- Also called Draughts. Note about multiple jumps: it is a basic rule in checkers that if you can jump (capture) then you must. If after that jump your piece can do another jump then it must (called a 'double jump'), and if it can do another it must ('triple jump'), and so on!
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Checkers is a two-player game, where one player is assigned white checkers and the other red.
The aim of the game is to capture the other player's checkers or make them impossible to move.
Game features
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- Play online against others
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- Customizable game settings
- Ratings and statistics
- Tournaments
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About Checkers
Checkers is also known as Draughts. It is thought to have originated from an ancient game called Alquerque or Qirkat.
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This free game opens as a web page. No installation. Mobile friendly.
This online Checkers Draughts game has a low difficulty level and is suited for beginners.
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How to play Checkers and Draughts
To start a game:
Press the play icon on the startup screen.
Draughts Online Board Game
Select game mode: Play against a friend (2 player game) or play against the computer (1 player game).
Online Checkers game basics
The game is played by two opponents who faces each other on opposite sides of the checkers gameboard. One of the players has the dark colour pieces and the other one has the light colour pieces.
The two players alternate turns in the game. It is not legal to move an opponent’s piece. A player can move a piece diagonally to an adjacent unoccupied square. If one of the opponent’s pieces occupy that adjacent square, and the square immediately beyond it is vacant, the opponent’s piece may be captured and removed from the game by jumping over it.
When one of the pieces reaches the other side of the board (the row farthest from the player), called the “kings’ row” or “crownhead”, the piece will become “king” and is marked by adding an additional piece on top of it. In this online game, the kings are marked with a crown. Kings have the ability to move and capture backwards as well as forwards.
King: A black piece has travelled to the kings’ row and turned into a king.
Checkers rules
It is only legal to move pieces on the dark squares of the checkers board. A piece may move only diagonally into an unoccupied square and capturing an opponent’s piece is mandatory in most official rules. The player without pieces remaining, or who cannot move, loses the game.
Checkers rules: Mandatory jump. It’s whites turn, and due to the black piece laying next to the marked white piece with a vacant square immediately beyond it, white is forced to jump over it and capture it.
Checkers history
A written mention of a game called Alquerque is found in the “Kitab al-Aghani”, a 10th-century encyclopedic collection of songs and poems. The Alquerque game was essentially similar to modern Draughts and Checkers games but played on a 5×5 board.
Some modern rules were added later, including the crowning of pieces to kings (13th century) and mandatory capture (16th century).
Checkers history: Medieval Draughts players (Charles Knight)
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