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Checkers

• Checkers, also known as English draughts, is played on an 8×8 board of 64 alternating dark and light squares. Two players take part, each with 12 pieces of their own colour, called white and black.

• The board is placed so that a dark corner square is on each player's left. The pieces stand on the dark squares of the 3 rows nearest to the player. Black moves first, then the players take turns.

• The object of the game is to capture or block all the opponent's pieces. A player who has no move on their turn loses.

• A man moves one square diagonally forward to a free square and captures forward only: it jumps over an opposing man or king to the free square right behind it and keeps capturing while it can. A piece may not jump over pieces of its own colour.

• A man that reaches the last row, by a simple move or by a capture, becomes a king, and the move ends there, even if further captures were possible.

• A king moves one square diagonally forward or backward and captures the same way: over an adjacent opposing piece to the free square right behind it, continuing while it can. A king may not jump over pieces of its own colour.

• Capturing is mandatory. The way to capture is a free choice, not necessarily the one that takes the most pieces. But a capture once started must be completed: you may not leave a piece that could be taken by continuing the same move.

• The same opposing piece may not be jumped twice.

• A missed capture does not cost a piece: the server simply will not accept such a move.

• Draw:

  • the same position has occurred five times;
  • 40 moves by each side without a man move and without captures.

Source: WCDF and ACF rules. Under the code a draw after 40 moves has to be claimed; on VOG it is recorded automatically. Repetition here is fivefold, as it has long been in the club's rooms; under the WCDF code (art. 1.32.1) a draw can be claimed already at the third repetition.