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Checkers Around The World
Great Britain
British Checkers Game
English Draughts and British Checkers (Great Britain)
Although American Checkers is a very popular
game of strategy, there are also numerous
regional variants to Checkers around the
world. Each International game of Checkers
is characterized by a variation in the size
of the playing board, in the movement of
the King, and in the laws of capture. These
details often change the strategic and tactical
planning of the game. These variances
will be explained under each different type
of Checkers game. This game is the British
version of American checkers, also known
as ‘straight
checkers’ from Great Britain.
British checkers game and Draughts are strategy
games played by two players on opposite sides
of a checkerboard and involves making alternate
diagonal moves of uniform checker pieces, just
as in the traditional American checkers version.
British Checkers Game Rules:
1. British
checkers game is played on an 8 x 8 checkerboard
with dark and light squares but the actual
playing surface is only on the dark squares
2. 12 men
or checkers are used by each opponent
3.
‘Black’
or the darker color moves first
4. uncrowned
pieces or checker ‘men’ can
only move and capture in a forward direction
to an empty square
5. when there
is more than one way to make a jump, the
player may choose which way he/she wants
to move; this sequence may not necessarily
result in making the greatest number of captures
6. when more
than one jump is available in a given move,
all captures must be made in that sequence
7. player
can only move the checker forwards to capture
an opposing game piece
8. a captured
checker is removed from the game board
9. when checker
pieces reach the opposing player’s
King Row or Crown head, then they become
Kings and acquire additional powers including
the ability to move, jump, and capture backwards
10. all
other conditions of regular checkers game play for British
checkers are the same as denoted in American
checkers
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