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Checkers is
a mental sport board game between two players which involve diagonal
moves of uniform pieces and mandatory captures by jumping over
the enemy's pieces - Checekrs is easy to play but difficult to
really master.
The most popular
forms are international Checkers, played on a 10×10 board,
followed by English Draughts, also called Checkers that is played
on a 8×8 board, but there are many other variants of Checkers.The
name "Draughts" is preferred by English players and
others in the United Kingdom and its former colonies and territories.
In the United States, Canada, and Australia the name Checkers
is preferred to Draughts.
Though many
authorities believe Checkers originated around 1100 AD, probably
in southern France, other authorities disagree. It has been generally
held that the inventor of Checkers created the board game by combining
a chessboard with the rules of Alquerque. Earlier evidence has
been found of a similar game of Checkers played in ancient Egypt,
and mentions of the Checkers type game had been made by Plato
and Homer in the first few centuries BC. Egyptian origins of Checkers
can be traced as far back as 1600 BC.
We stock 8x8
Checkers sets and international 10x10 Checkers sets - Checkers
is great!.
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