How to Play Checkers

How2Play: Checkers

How to Play Checkers – Classic Board Game Rules & Guide

Ready to learn how to play Checkers? This step-by-step guide will help you start playing one of the world’s most popular board games! Checkers is perfect for all ages—easy to learn, fun to play, and full of strategy.

Checkers is played on a square board with 64 spaces. Each player has 12 pieces, and the goal is to capture all of your opponent’s pieces or block them so they can’t move.

Players take turns moving their pieces diagonally forward. If you can “jump” over an opponent’s piece, you capture it! Reach the other side and your piece becomes a “King,” which can move both forward and backward.

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Checkers – Step by Step Rules

1. Place your pieces on the dark squares of the three rows closest to you.
2. Players take turns moving one piece diagonally forward to an empty square.
3. If you can jump over an opponent’s piece to an empty square, you capture it and remove it from the board.
4. When your piece reaches the opposite side, it’s “Kinged” and can move both forward and backward.
5. Win by capturing all your opponent’s pieces or blocking all their possible moves!

Checkers is a game of skill and strategy that you can play at home, with friends, or online. Get started and have fun!