Checkers Rules
Beginning with Black each player moves one of
his or her pieces per turn. Throughout these rules, a "piece"
means either a "man"--a single checker, which is all
that players have at the start of the game--or a "king,"
which is what a man becomes if it reaches the last rank.
A man may move
one square diagonally forward--that is, toward the opponent--onto
an empty square.
If a square diagonally
in front of a man is occupied by an opponent's piece, and
if the square beyond that piece in the same direction is empty,
the man may jump over the opponent's piece and land on the
empty square. The opponent's piece is captured and removed
from the board.
When a man reaches
the last rank--the row of squares closest to the opponent--it
becomes a king. Kings have the ability to move and capture
the same way as men, but they also may move and capture backward.
A player must
make a capture when able to do so, and may not make an ordinary
noncapturing move. If, after making a capture, a piece is
in a position to make another capture--either along the same
diagonal or a different one--it must do so, all as part of
the same turn. Capturing two opposing pieces in a turn is
called a double jump, capturing three pieces in a turn is
a triple jump , and so on. (multiple jumps are treated like
multiple moves: If a checker jumps to a square from which
it can make a further jump, its owner retains the turn after
releasing the mouse button, and must then continue by making
the next jump.)
A piece may not end its move in a position from which an additional
capture is possible (except during a move in which a man becomes
a king, as explained below). Both men and kings may capture
men, kings, or a combination of men and kings. A player who
has more than one way to make a capturing move may make whichever
capturing move he or she chooses; there is no requirement
to capture the most pieces or the most kings, as in some forms
of checkers. When a man moves or jumps to the last rank, its
turn ends. Even if the man made a jump to get there, it may
not continue jumping backward as a king on the same turn.
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