Designer	(Uncredited)
Artist	Frank Hampson Beatrix Potter
Publisher	(Public Domain) (Unknown) Bello Games New York, Inc. Berwick's Toy Co. Ltd. Borras Plana S.A. Built-Rite Cardinal Cayro Juegos Chad Valley CHH Games Coca-Cola Copp Clark Publishing Company Creative Crafthouse Crisloid Crown Games Deuce Dilemma Games Distribuzione Associata Giocattoli Ducale Dujardin E.S. Lowe The Embossing Company Executive Games Fifth Avenue Crystal Ltd. FridgePlay Friendly Games, Inc. Fundex Globe Series of Games Granna H. P. Gibson & Sons HABA - Habermaaß GmbH Halsall Halsam Hasbro Hershey Holdson Homas Spelen Horn igGameCenter J & L Randall, Ltd. James Galt and Company John Deere John Player & Sons K & C Ltd King International Klopffleisch L. P. Septímio Magnetic Poetry Inc Majora Marigó MB Spiele McCormick & Co Melissa & Doug Miko Milton Bradley Mitra Murfett Australia Nathan National Game Company Noris Spiele Old Time Games Oriental Trading Company Papita Parker Brothers Paul Lamond Games Ltd Philmar Pin International Pleasantime Games Pressman Toy Corp. Quaker Oats Rico Industries Schmidt Spiele Selchow & Righter Simba Toys Siso Trend Smethport Specialty Co. Spear's Games Spika Standard Oil Super Accord Thomas Salter Ltd Toysmith The Traditional Games Co. Ltd. Transogram Tri-ang University Games Vilac Wee Folks Whitman Wicked Vision Wm F. Drueke & Sons, Inc. Wood Expressions Show More »
Year Published	1150
# of Players	2
User Suggested # of Players	Best with 2 players Recommended with 2 players (41 voters) [poll]
Playing Time	30 minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages	6 and up
User Suggested Ages	6 and up (22 voters) [poll]
Language Dependence	No necessary in-game text (23 voters) [poll]
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Subdomain	Abstract Games (58 voters) [vote]
Category	Abstract Strategy Comic Book / Strip Game System
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Primary Name	Checkers
Alternate Names	American Checkers Arbonite Draughtsmen Bee Brand Checkers Beer Checkers Care Bear Checkers Cars Checkers & Tic Tac Toe Championship Draughts Checker Checker Board and Checkers Checker Game Checker Game Set Checkers (and 5 other games) Checkers and Five Other Games Checkers and Five Other Games Checkers and Michigan Rummy Checkers Scooby-Doo! Chess/Checkers/Backgammon Clown Checkers Comet Checkers Comet Special Checkers Complete Draughts A Complete Game of Checkers Composition Checkers Corona Dam dáma Dama Damas Dame Dame-Mühle Dame-Mühle-Spiel Dames Dammen Damoj Damschijven Damspel Dan Dare Draughts Draughtmen Draughts Draughts Men Draughtsmen Fierges Flag-Stones FridgeCheckers Golden Chess and Checker-Board Hershey's Chockers Interlocking Checkers Interlocking Draughtsmen Jeu de Dames Le Jeu de Dames Jeu de Dames & Jeu de Marelle Jeu forcé Jeu plaisant John Deere Checkers Kabe Kings' Row Le Jeu de Dames The Lord of the Rings Checkers The Lord of the Rings Checkers Collector's Edition Magnetic Checkers Magnetic Draughts Ntama Oer Hoek Perfection Checkers Polish Draughts Šaškės Standard Oil Checkers Super Heroes Checker Set Sylon Draughtsmen Tammi The World of Beatrix Potter Draughts Tournament Checker Set Tournament Checkers Transformers Animated Checkers The Travellers Set of Ivory Draughts Vest Pocket Complete Checker Set Warcaby Ντάμα Шашки דמקה 西洋跳棋
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Abstract strategy game where players move disc-shaped pieces across an 8 by 8 cross-hatched ("checker") board.
Pieces only move diagonally, and only one space at a time. If a player can move one of his pieces so that it "jumps" over an adjacent piece of their opponent and into an empty space, that player captures the opponent's disc. Jumping moves must be taken when possible, thereby creating a strategy game where players offer up jumps in exchange for setting up the board so that they jump even more pieces on their turn. A player wins by removing all of his opponent's pieces from the board or by blocking the opponent so that he has no more moves.

This game, also known as "Draughts" is part of the Checkers family.

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CCG Workshop (no longer available)
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The Checker Maven - The World's Most Widely Read Checkers and Draughts Publication, a weekly webzine on all things checkers.

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http://www.brettspielnetz.de (turnbased, German) direct link

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Checkerboard
12 Dark Pieces (Disks)
12 Light Pieces (Disks)

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FridgeCheckers

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FridgePlay edition

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Year: 2004

Size: 8.00 x 8.00 x 0.06 inches

0.48 pounds

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The Lord of the Rings Checkers

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Friendly Games edition

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Year: 2003

Size: 7.75 x 7.75 x 1.75 inches

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Care Bear Checkers

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First edition

Publisher: Cardinal

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Year: 2003

Size: 14.50 x 14.50 x 2.50 inches

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Checkers

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Fifth Avenue Crystal 3-in-1 Edition

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Year: 2002

Product Code: 326227

Size: 16.50 x 16.50 x 3.25 inches

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Aprenda a jogar DAMAS

Aprenda a jogar DAMAS. Regras em Português. (Learn how to play CHECKERS. Rules in Portuguese).

DanielCG

2011-06-28

EveryGame Checkers

These are all of the files required to play Checkers using EveryGame (available from the App Store for the Apple iPad and iPhone). Simply unzip the archive and copy the individual files onto your iPad to play, or edit them first to create your own modified version.

ndirksen

2010-06-06

Dutch Checkers rules - Dammen Regels -NL

Rules for Checkers in Dutch. Hier zijn de regels voor Dammen in het Nederlands.

pooterbug

2009-02-14

Basic US rules of Checkers

Here are the basic rules of checkers (US version)

pooterbug

2009-02-14

Checkers - Cyberboard Version

Cyberboard version of Checkers with Scenario. Pieces are flippable to show kings. [imageid=340931 medium] You will Need the [url=http://cyberboard.brainiac.com/cyberboardv310.exe]Cyberboard[/url] program to run the files. [b]See my [url=http://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/18537/my-cyberboard-conversions]Geeklist Here[/url] for all my other Cyberboard Conversions.[/b] Don't forget to Thumb!

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2008-06-25

ntama.zip

Ntama (dama) a more advanced Turkish/Greek version of checker that uses all squares for Windows.

chaosbreaker

2006-06-15

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checkers strategy tips	http://boardgame.blog36.fc2.com/	2011-08-04
User reviews on bordspelmania.eu in Dutch	http://www.bordspelmania.eu/spellen/detail/dammen_...	2010-09-12
Wikipedia entry	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checkers	2010-03-22
English Review on Spotlight on Games	http://spotlightongames.com/list/nights/d.html#dra...	2010-03-05
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Wikipedia info on Marion Tinsley, checkers champion	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_Tinsley	2008-06-09
Home of Cake, world class checkers program (free)	http://www.fierz.ch/checkers.htm	2005-04-21
American Checker Federation	http://www.usacheckers.com/	2004-05-22
Or Play Online!	http://www.beercheckers.com/games/checkers.html	2003-09-19