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{{Short description|Strategy board game}} {{Redirect|Draughts|other uses|Draft (disambiguation){{!}}Draft}} {{Other uses}} {{for|the American/English version| English draughts}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2020}} {{EngvarA|date=January 2022}} {{Infobox game | title = Checkers | italic title = no |logo_alt=checkers game|image=| image_link = File:CheckersStandard.jpg | image_caption = Starting position for [[English draughts |American checkers]] on an 8Γ8 [[checkerboard]]; {{boardgloss|Black}} (red) moves first. | years = at least 5,000 | genre = {{ubl|[[Board game]]|[[Abstract strategy game]]|[[Mind sport]]}} | players = 2 <!-- | ages = 7+<ref>{{Cite book|last=Mohr|first=Merilyn Simonds|url=http://archive.org/details/newgamestreasury0000mohr|title=The New Games Treasury: more than 500 indoor and outdoor favorites with strategies, rules, and traditions|date=1997 |location=Boston |publisher=Houghton Mifflin Co.|via=the Internet Archive|isbn=978-1-57630-058-9}}</ref> --> | setup_time = < 1 min | playing_time = Casual games usually last 10 to 30 minutes; tournament games last anywhere from about 60 minutes to 3 hours or more. | random_chance = None | skills = [[Strategy game|Strategy]], tactics | ages = 6+ | AKA = {{ubl|Draughts|Drafts|Chequers}} }} '''Checkers'''{{NoteTag|When this word is used in the UK, it is usually spelled '''chequers''' (as in ''Chinese chequers''); see further at [[American and British spelling differences]].}} ([[American English]]), also known as '''draughts''' ({{IPAc-en|d|r|ΙΛ|f|t|s|,_|d|r|Γ¦|f|t|s}}; [[English in the Commonwealth of Nations|Commonwealth English]]), is a group of [[Abstract strategy game|strategy]] [[board game]]s for two players which involve forward movements of uniform game pieces and mandatory captures by jumping over opponent pieces. Checkers is developed from [[alquerque]].<ref name="TradGames">{{cite web |url=http://www.tradgames.org.uk/games/Draughts.htm |title=Draughts / Checkers and the Alquerque Family |publisher=James Masters |website=TradGames |access-date=January 17, 2025}}</ref> The term "checkers" derives from the [[Check (pattern)|checkered]] board which the game is played on, whereas "draughts" derives from the verb "to draw" or "to move".<ref name="strutt2">{{cite book|last=Strutt|first=Joseph|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eJwSAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA255|title=The sports and pastimes of the people of England|year=1801|location=London|pages=255}}</ref> The most popular forms of checkers in Anglophone countries are American checkers (also called [[English draughts]]), which is played on an 8Γ8 [[checkerboard]]; [[Russian draughts]], [[Turkish draughts]] and [[Armenian draughts]], all of them on an 8Γ8 board; and [[international draughts]], played on a 10Γ10 board β with the latter widely played in many countries worldwide. There are many other variants played on 8Γ8 boards. [[Canadian checkers]] and [[Malaysian/Singaporean checkers]] (also locally known as '''dam''') are played on a 12Γ12 board. American checkers was [[Solved game|weakly solved]] in 2007 by a team of Canadian computer scientists led by [[Jonathan Schaeffer]]. From the standard starting position, perfect play by each side would result in a draw.
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