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	Draughts - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Draughts, also known as checkers, is a group of mental sport board games between two players which involve diagonal moves of uniform pieces and mandatory captures by jumping over the enemy's pieces.
		The version of checkers most often played in the United States is identical to the English variant of draughts, though there are some regional variants of checkers, such as pool.
		Pool checkers - Exactly the same rules as Brazilian checkers but when there is more than one way for a player to jump, one may choose which sequence to make, not necessarily the sequence that will result in the most amount of captures.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Checkers (1408 words)

	Checkers article - Checkers Cocker Spaniel Richard Nixon American fast-food restaurant chain - What-Means.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Checkers (or draughts) is a group of board games which involve the "jumping" of enemy pieces.
		Checkers (also known as Draughts) is played by two people, on opposite sides of a playing board, alternating moves.
		In international draughts, (or international checkers), the board is 10x10 with 20 pieces each, and the kings move as far as they want on diagonals.
	www.what-means.com /encyclopedia/Checkers (1336 words)

	Checkers, Nixon's Dog. Roadside Pet Cemetery
		Checkers, the cute cocker spaniel that saved Richard Nixon's political career in 1952 -- and by extension caused Watergate and a profound period of national funk -- is buried along with 50,000 other dogs, cats, chimpanzees, etc. in Long Island's Bide-a-Wee Pet Cemetery.
		Checkers touched the hearts of a nation when then-VP candidate Nixon was accused of setting up a secret slush fund.
		Note: Rumors that Checkers was to be exhumed and reburied at the Richard Nixon Library in Yorba Linda, CA, are false.
	www.roadsideamerica.com /pet/checkers.html (274 words)

	Checkers Online and other Board Games Online. Play free internet checkers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Some historians believed that checkers may have been invented around 1000 AD.; The location of the Checkers game origin is probably the south of France and Spain - Hey, a Mediterranean game.
		The game of Checkers or Draughts is played on a board of sixty-four squares of alternate colors, usually referred as fl and white although not necessarily of those colors.
		The checkers are moved diagonally forward, left or right, one square at each turn.
	www.checkers.ws (597 words)

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		In order to "capture" an opponent's checker, he must be able to jump (with his own man) over his opponent's checker when there is a vacant square behind.
		When a player moves his checker to the last row on the opposite side of the board, that checker becomes a "King." The "King" is "crowned" by placing another checker on top of it.
		Triangular Checkers is played the same way as regular checkers except that the player moves his checkers sideways as well as forward and a king can be crowned only in the opponent's corner dark square.
	www.pressmantoy.com /instructions/instruct_checkers.html (740 words)

	Draughts (checkers) rules in Poland
		A "huff" of a checker for failure to jump properly is not permitted.
		Captured checkers are not removed from the board until all jumps made on the move are completed, and the hand is removed from the capturing man or king.
		A "huff" of a checker for failure to jump properly is not permitted as it was in the past.
	www.warcaby.beep.pl /rules_eng.html (2323 words)

	CHECKERS MAIN PAGE
		You would be able to see the fl checkers, but it makes no sense to use checkers of the same color as the squares on which they are placed.
		This is true of Italian checkers as well, but in Italian checkers men may not jump kings.
		In Spanish checkers men move and jump forward only, but kings cross the board in one move, so this variation is, so to speak, halfway between the other two types.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/Arthur_H_Olsen/checkers.htm (815 words)

	checkers on Encyclopedia.com
		Spelling checkers and students with learning disabilities: Performance comparisons and impact on...
		Checkers Drive-In Restaurants, Inc. Reports First Quarter 2003 Results; * EPS of $0.25 surpasses previously announced range * Company-owned same store sales increased 6.4%.
		NASCAR Collector's Edition Checkers is among the new board games for the holiday season.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/c1/checkers.asp (640 words)

	Checkers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		People who play checkers that way also doesn't know how to learn checkers tactics and strategies, because they never played checkers that way to learn more tactics by losing, so they are not very good at it.
		Exactly the same rules as Brazilian checkers, but if there are many sequences to capture, you have to capture the sequence that has the most pieces.
		Exactly the same rules as pool checkers, but if a man touches the kings row from a jump and it can continue to jump backwards, it have to jump backwards as kings, not men.
	www.farfarfar.com /games/checkers (1091 words)

	GameColony.com : Checkers Basics
		First references to checkers game are found as early as 1600 B.C in Egyptian paintings and inscriptions at time of the Pharaohs.
		It is played on an 8x8 checkered board, with a dark square in each player's lower left corner.
		When you are in the playing area you can move checkers on the board.
	www.chesslab.com /rules/checkersbasics.html (206 words)

	FreewarePalm: Checkers (Draughts) v2.1
		Play Checkers against the Palm for free with the option of a search depth of 2,4 or 6.
		First, other complaints about having to jump pieces are flawed because the rules of checkers are that you must jump if able.
		The game of checkers is fun, but I get tired of playing this.
	www.freewarepalm.com /games/checkers(draughts).shtml (404 words)

	"There is a Certain Amount of Humor in Checkers" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Checkers in America is a kind of Norman Rockwell icon, a symbol of good-natured competition and wholesome amusement.
		Because nearly everyone knows how to play, checkers is often viewed as a pastime for old men and children, on a par with tick-tack-toe or Go Fish.
		Games resembling checkers were popular as long ago as 1600 B.C. At Thebes, a wall painting apparently showed Ramses III playing an early form of checkers with a lady.
	www.smithsonianmag.si.edu /smithsonian/issues99/aug99/checkers.html (397 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Checkers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Checkers, following this tradition, is the riveting story of a teenage girl who loses not only her family but her sanity when her father is suspected of participating in a financial scam--one that the media has traced to the highest levels of the Australian government.
		But among this all, is her "darling dog Checkers", a most important figure in the plot development.
		Told through memories and flashbacks, the story illustrates the girl's plummet from the utmost joy, like getting a puppy checkers and living in a lush home, to her arrival in the phsyc ward that she is currently living in.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0395857546?v=glance (1847 words)

	Java Checkers
		At the start of the game all checkers may advance toward the opposite side of the board by moving diagonally from one red square to another vacant red square.
		When a checker reaches the opposite side of the board, the checker is crowned and becomes a king (denoted by a triangle).
		The one exception is that when an uncrowned checker jumps into the king row (the opposite side of the board), it cannot jump again until the next turn.
	thinks.com /java/checkers/checkers.htm (336 words)

	Checkers
		The game of checkers is played on the darker squares only.
		Objective: The game of checkers is played between two players who alternate moves.
		A second checker is placed on top of that piece.
	www.coffeebreakarcade.com /games/checkersnbsco/instructions.htm (299 words)

	Net Checkers
		It means that you can play via e-mail with other checkers fans all over the world who have checkers software that supports this format - your opponents don't have to buy Net Checkers and you don't have to buy software they use for playing checkers.
		Checkers (known as Draughts in the UK) is perhaps the world's best known board game with its history being traced back more than 3,500 years.
		More tips on improving your Checkers game, from the experts, as well as rules of the game, strategy tips and hints, and suggestions for playing a winning game.
	www.netintellgames.com /checkers.htm (929 words)

	11.2 Samuel's Checkers Player
		His checkers players are instructive case studies in addition to being of historical interest.
		He chose to study checkers instead of chess because its relative simplicity made it possible to focus more strongly on learning.
		His interpretation was that this drastic intervention jarred the program out of local optima, but another possibility is that it jarred the program out of evaluation functions that were consistent but had little to do with winning or losing the game.
	www.cs.ualberta.ca /~sutton/book/11/node3.html (1380 words)

	AllRefer.com - checkers, Game & Hobby (Games And Hobbies) - Encyclopedia
		checkers, game for two players, known in England as draughts.
		It is played on a square board, divided into 64 alternately colored : usually red and fl or white and fl : square spaces, identical with a chessboard.
		The game has been played in Europe since the 16th cent., and the ancients played a similar game.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/C/checkers.html (247 words)

	Checkers Home Page
		Checkers was adopted by Glenn and JoAnne Short and their children.
		Checkers recieved his American Championship the day he turned 9 months, and his Canadian Championship at 23 months (after a long lay off from showing).
		Checkers is proud to be the official mascot of
	beardie.net /checkers (81 words)

	The American Checker Federation
		Checkers is great for the mind and Soccer is good for the body and both go well together.
		Kim is one of the best woman checker players in the world; she finished third at the woman's qualifying tournament this past year in Barbados.
		The Canadian Checker Association (CCA) joined the World Checkers and Draughts Federation (WCDF), on Thursday, April 1, 2004, pushing the WCDF ever closer to its goal of ten member organizations by the start of the World Qualifiers in Barbados on June 13-19.
	www.usacheckers.com (6347 words)

	Checkers Game and Board Games Online. Play free internet checkers game (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Also, in the case of multiple captures, the interface is intuitive for the player, since he will be able to click on all the intermediate squares.
		The background color of the checker after one capture allows him to see easily that a further capture is possible.
		The computer will only consider moves to be complete in the case of multiple captures if the 'active' checker, that is, the checker that has already captured, has no further captures.
	www.checkers.ws /checkers/checkers_game/checkers_game.htm (349 words)

	GamesPark : Checkers
		Checkers has its roots in the ancient game of Nine Men's Morris, a game that predates even game boards, as it was originally played by drawing on sand and dirt.
		The name Checkers is actually an older name for the game than Draughts, but one that was adopted in America.
		Another way to win is to block all of your opponent's pieces so that he or she has no possible moves.
	gamespark.com /game.php?checkers (455 words)

	checkers -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - Your gateway to all Britannica has to offer!
		Checkers is played by two persons who oppose each other across a board of 64 light and dark squares, the same as a chessboard.
		The 24 playing pieces are disk-shaped and of contrasting colours (whatever their colours, they are identified as fl and white).
		Checkers is a war game with offensive and defensive play.
	concise.britannica.com /ebc/article?tocId=9360447 (787 words)

	Richard Nixon Checkers Speech
		Although it would forever be known as Nixon's "Checkers Speech," it was actually a political triumph for Nixon at the time it was given.
		Eisenhower requested Nixon to come to West Virginia where he was campaigning and greeted Nixon at the airport with, "Dick, you're my boy." The Republicans went on to win the election by a landslide.
		A man down in Texas heard Pat on the radio mention the fact that our two youngsters would like to have a dog, and, believe it or not, the day before we left on this campaign trip we got a message from Union Station in Baltimore, saying they had a package for us.
	www.historyplace.com /speeches/nixon-checkers.htm (3923 words)

	Gui Checkers 1.00
		This is based on a checkers playing program that I made in three days originally, plus 3 more days to get the first GUI version, new move generation, better search and cleaner code.
		I've heard checkers has an average branching factor of about 3, because all jumps are forced.
		If there are more than one sequence of moves that leads to the same board position, (for instance, a checker can reach the same square in 2 moves by advancing left, then right, or right first, then left,) these positions will be encountered more than once in the search.
	www.3dkingdoms.com /checkers.htm (1836 words)

	alphaWorks : FoCs Property Checkers Generator : Overview
		FoCs Property Checkers Generator takes properties written in the PSL/Sugar specification language and automatically translates them into Checkers, or monitors, which in turn are integrated into the chip simulation environment.
		Each Checker implements a state machine that enters and asserts an error state if the respective property fails to hold in a simulation run.
		FoCs Property Checkers Generator can also be used for coverage analysis, that is, to create checkers that track the occurrences of events of interest during simulation.
	www.alphaworks.ibm.com /tech/FoCs (537 words)

	Italian Checkers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Italian checkers is played on the dark squares only of a standard checkerboard of 64 alternating dark and light squares, (eight rows, eight files) by two opponents having 12 checkers each of contrasting colors, nominally referred to as fl and white.
		A man which reaches the far side of the board, whether by means of a jump or a simple move, becomes a king, and the move terminates.
		The opponent must then crown the new king by placing a checker of the same color atop it.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/Arthur_H_Olsen/Italian.htm (611 words)

	Checkers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Checkers is played on the dark squares only.
		(In checkers, a king is usually signified by stacking two checkers one on top of the other.
		Checkers strategy is built around the idea that you force your opponent to jump in order to get them into a bad position.
	www.darkfish.com /checkers/Checkers.html (444 words)

	Open Directory - Games: Board Games: Abstract: Capturing Games: Checkers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Checkers and Draughts - Checkers and Draughts, rules, champions, problems, famous players and positions.
		Checkers Information at Board Game Central - Information, book, and links about the game of Checkers, as well as software for Windows, Macintosh, and other platforms.
		Rules of Checkers - Includes the rules of checkers along with a short history, some strategy and a bulletin board.
	dmoz.org /Games/Board_Games/Abstract/Capturing_Games/Checkers (314 words)

	Checkers 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Checkers is like looking down a well." In neither case can a solution be seen, in most cases.
		Tinsley was on the Ohio State Chess Team, as a young man, but choose Checkers as the game he could most likely become a Grandmaster at.
		Checkers is one of the oldest of board games, with Chess and Backgammon, later forms.
	www.acfcheckers.com /newbusines.html (1406 words)

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