Rules For Draft Game In Alameda
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A lone, blocked piece somewhere on the side of the board will not be useful and will not help you to win. It's not worth splitting pieces into small groups - when they form one team, they cooperate better together. It is easier for them to protect one another. It's also easier to pull your opponent into a trap.
In American Checkers, known also as English draughts the board consists of 64 squares (8x8 checkerboard). On the other hand international draughts is played on 10x10 gameboard, which means 100 squares.
Checkers (American English), also known as draughts (/drɑːfts, dræfts/; British English), is a group of strategy board games for two players which involve forward movements of uniform game pieces and mandatory captures by jumping over opponent pieces.
Draughts-64 is played with 12 white or light colored men, and 12 black or dark colored men. 2.2. 2. At the start of the game, the 12 white men are put on the dark squares of the 1, 2, 3 horizontal rows and the 12 black men are put on the dark squares of the 6, 7, 8 horizontal rows (Diagram 2).
Play Un-crowned pieces can only move diagonally forwards but can capture diagonally forwards AND backwards. A Queen moves by diagonally traversing any number of unoccupied squares. Capturing is compulsory and where there is a choice, the move that captures the greatest number of pieces must be made.
To win an International Draughts game, you must utilize rules such as: backward capturing, majority capturing, and a flying king. #1 Use capturing backward. In international draughts, capturing backward is possible (unlike in American checkers). #2 “Majority capture” rule. #3 Use your king to capture more pieces.
Place your checkers in the dark spaces so there is an empty light square in the right corner for each player. There should be three rows of four checkers each, placed only in dark squares.
Starting position Each player starts with 12 men on the dark squares of the three rows closest to that player's side (see diagram). The row closest to each player is called the kings row or crownhead. The player with the darker-coloured pieces moves first. Then turns alternate.
King can move diagonally any number of fields, forwards or backwards - these are called "flying kings". King can stop on any square behind the piece that was captured. A piece becomes a king if it reaches the promotion line of the board (the most distant row on the opponent's side) and stops on it.
