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Checkers

Classic American checkers on an 8×8 board against another player, live. Play rated games to climb the leaderboard, or casual ones for fun.

Rules

  • Red moves first. Pieces move one square diagonally forward onto a dark square.
  • Capture by jumping over an opponent's piece. Captures are mandatory.
  • If the same piece can keep jumping, it must, so a multi-jump counts as one move. Tap each landing square in turn.
  • A piece that reaches the far row becomes a king and can move backwards too. Being crowned ends the move.
  • You win when your opponent has no pieces or no legal moves.
  • A game is drawn by agreement, or after 40 moves each with no capture and no ordinary piece moved.
  • If the turn timer runs out, you lose. If either player leaves before both have moved, the game is aborted.