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English draughts, known simply as draughts in the United Kingdom and some other countries, and also called American checkers, straight checkers, or simply checkers, is a form of the draughts board game played on an 8×8 board with 12 pieces on each side that may only initially move and capture diagonally forwards. Only when a piece is "kinged" may it move backwards or forwards.
As in all draughts variants, English draughts is played by two people, on opposite sides of a playing board, alternating moves. One player has black pieces, and the other has white or red pieces. Most commonly, the board alternates between red and black. The opponents pieces are captured by jumping over them.
Rules
* Board - The board is an 8×8 grid, with alternating black and red squares, called a checkerboard (in the United States, in reference to its checkered pattern). This 8×8 checkered grid is shared with chess, and commercial chess sets often include draughts as a secondary game, sometimes with backgammon, which would use the same pieces on a board on the inside of the traditional folding chessboard/storage box. Some international variations of the game use a 10×10 or 12×12 board.
* Pieces - The pieces are usually made of wood and are flat and cylindrical. They are invariably split into one darker and one lighter colour. Traditionally, these colours are red and white, but red and black are common in the U.S., and light- and dark-stained wood are supplied with more expensive sets. There are two classes of pieces: "men" and "kings". Kings are differentiated as consisting of two normal pieces of the same colour, stacked one on top of the other. Often indentations are added to the pieces to aid stacking.
* Starting Position - Each player starts with 12 pieces on the dark spaces of the three rows closest to his own side, as shown in the diagram. The row closest to each player is called the "crownhead" or "kings row". The black (darker color) side moves first.
* read more at » http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English+draughts
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