Checkers

Playing checkers badly is quite easy; and that is the way most people do play it.

A basic rule of the game is: In checkers, CAPTURES ARE COMPULSORY. Of course, if more than one capture is pos­sible, you have the option of making the capture which you deem most advantageous.

Even if you don\'t play a perfect game of checkers, you can still enjoy the game.

But checkers as the experts play it, with all its richness of ideas and exquisite economy of force, is much more fun.

It is always more gratifying to play expertly and to win, than it is to flounder. That is why this site has been written.

Its purpose is to enable you to play like an expert so that you will derive greater enjoyment and keener appreciation of the beauty of the game.

Checkers is played by two opponents. The checkers are placed on a board which has 64 squares, colored alternately light and dark. Only the dark squares are used.

Each player starts with 12 men.

One set of men is known as Black, the other as White. (In practice, the two most common color combinations are black for the dark color and red for the light-or, sometimes, red for the dark and white for the light color.)

Whatever the actual colors used, Black is the official name for the dark color and White for the light color.

Note that when you set up the men at the beginning of a game, a dark single-corner square is at each player\'s left.

From the book <a href=\"http://www.how-to-play-checkers.com/howtoplaycheckers.html\">\"How to Play Checkers\"</a> by Fred Reinfeld and re-Published by DMC Enterprises, Inc.

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