Checkers
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Jump. Chain. Crown.
Draughts on a glass tabletop: forced captures, chained jumps and crowned kings. Solo against three bot levels, pass and play on one device, rated duels, co-op 2v2 with bots filling the seats, and today's board. Classic or Flying kings rules on a 120, 60 or 30 second move clock. Dame the butterfly presides.
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Ways to play
Modes
Solo vs bots
Gentle, Skilled or Ruthless, on Classic or Flying kings rules.
Pass and play
Two players, one device, turn by turn.
Rated duels
Room duels with ELO, challenges and the duel leaderboard. Every player signed in.
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Co-op 2v2
Two pairs share a board; bots fill empty seats. Pair leaderboard.
Today's board
One shared starting position a day, against a bot.
How to play
How Checkers plays
- 1
Pick a mode and the rules: Classic, or Flying kings.
- 2
Move diagonally forward one square. Jump a rival to capture it; captures are mandatory and chain.
- 3
Reach the far row to crown a king. Take every rival piece, or block them all, to win.
The rules in short
Checkers (draughts) is played on the dark squares of an 8 by 8 board, twelve pieces a side. Pieces move one square diagonally forward. A piece captures by jumping over an adjacent rival piece onto the empty square beyond, and must keep jumping while it can; capturing is mandatory. A piece that reaches the far row is crowned a king and may also move backwards. In Classic rules a king moves one square at a time; in Flying kings it slides any distance along a diagonal and lands anywhere beyond a captured piece. You win by capturing every rival piece or leaving your opponent without a legal move. Online, every mode runs on a per-move clock of 120, 60 or 30 seconds, and the 3D glass tabletop animates each jump and crowning.
Signature features
What makes Checkers different
Flying kings
The long-range king variant, switchable per game.
3D glass tabletop
Pieces jump and crown with their own animation on a glass board.
Move clock
120, 60 or 30 seconds a move, in every mode.
Checkers questions
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