English / American Checkers
UK · USA
The classic that 'checkers' means in the English-speaking world. Played on an 8×8 board with 12 men each, it has some of the simplest rules of any variant.
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Note: a few tournament subtleties (draw rules, rare priority cases) are simplified in this online version.
Rules
- Men move and capture diagonally forward only.
- Kings do not fly: they move one square in any diagonal direction.
- Capturing is compulsory, but taking the maximum is not.
- It became the first major game fully solved by computer (1994–2007): perfect play is a draw.
About the game
Blindfold and match play made this game a 19th-century spectator sport in Britain and the USA. Since Chinook solved it in 2007, top-level play relies on restricted three-move openings to keep games alive.