A game played on a modified checkers (chequers) or draughts board, which resembles the 8×8 board but lacks six squares in each corner. It uses two sets of 11 ordinary checkers plus 1 king for each side. The ordinary checkers may move orthogonally forwards or sideways into vacant squares, but not diagonally. Jumping is compulsory where possible. The winner...
Quad Checkers is an abstract strategy game where 4 players move small discs on an 8x8 board, attempting to "capture" an opponent's pieces. It is very similar to the basic Checkers game. On each turn, players may only move in a diagonal direction. If a player's piece cannot move to a square, as an opponent's piece is occupying it, the piece is instead moved...
[From the back cover] Basic things you need to understand and then you can play Checkers with a partner. Partners: face each other and each player plays in turn in a clockwise direction. All checker pieces: move or jump according to the Standard Rules of Checkers ...Except... each single checker changes its forward direction only once...when it moves or...
User Summary This checker variant features a standard checker board surrounded by a three deep starting space for each of the 4 players. Play proceeds in the familiar checkers mode with the added complication that one faces challenges from opponents on the left and right, as well as from the one across the table. Game features playing pieces in blue, red...
Originally called 'Dammen voor 4'. Translated box text: Checkers for 4 is much more than just checkers: young, old, novice or expert, everybody can play! Play individually or 2-against-2 and prepare for a dynamic family game full of surprises... 1. Everybody's in! Whether playing with two, three or four players, everybody is in with Checkers for 4! Ideal...
Queens and Kings ...A Checkers Game is an abstract strategy game for 2 or 4 players that plays like checkers and in addition introduces a queen component that throws strategy out the door on each and every move. The game can be played in either two player or team mode. More about the game: The Queen, being tired of a male dominated game that either...
Game takes place on a 9 x 10 grid of circles; furthest row on either player's side of the board features circles filled with letters "C-H-A-C-H-A-C-H-A" and covered with game's checker pieces that have corresponding letters on top, each player having chosen a different side and color. Players take turns placing three shoe pieces of their own color on the...
A two-player abstract strategy game, reputedly originating from Chiangmai, Thailand, where it is said to be called Mhark Nheeb. Players take turns to move one of their 8 marbles, which initially start on the back row of an 8×8 grid, any number of spaces in a horizontal or vertical direction. Opposing marbles can be captures in one of two ways - enclosing...
This game is part of the checkers family. It is mainly played in Malaysia and Singapore, particularly amongst the older men. It is distinct from Checkers and Canadian Checkers. A common alternative name used locally for this game is Dum. It is played on a board of 144 squares with 30 pieces on a side. Un-promoted pieces can only move and capture forward. A...
A member of the Checkers Family also known as "American Pool Checkers" Very popular in the south of the United States, particularly with the African American community, this game differs from Checkers due to its "flying kings" and men capturing backwards (while still moving only forward). The most similar game in the family is Brazilian Checkers from which...
As HexDame is a hexagonal adaptation of International Checkers, Pskov Checkers (or Pskovskie Shashki) is a Checkers Family game adapted to a hexagonal board, in this case probably Shashki, though no inventor or date of creation is currently known. Pskov Checkers can be played on one of two boards, both of them regular hexagons comprised of hexagonal cells....
The board is a regular checkers board with indentations for balls to roll into place. At the beginning of the game the balls are placed on the board and the board is moved until all the balls are set in place. Any ball that rolled to the king row is replaced with a larger ball to represent a king and has all the powers of a king in regular checkers. Play...