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==Games and puzzles using checkerboards== [[File:The Childrens Museum of Indianapolis - Checkers.jpg|thumb|A game of checkers within the permanent collection of [[The Children's Museum of Indianapolis]]]] [[Martin Gardner]] featured puzzles based on checkerboards in his November 1962 [[Mathematical Games column]] in Scientific American. A square checkerboard with an alternating pattern is used for games including: * [[Amazons (game)|Amazons]] * [[Chapayev (game)|Chapayev]] * [[Chess]] and some of its [[Chess variant|variants]] (see [[chessboard]]) * [[Czech draughts]] * [[Draughts]], also known as checkers * [[Fox games]] * [[Frisian draughts]] * [[Gounki]] * [[International draughts]] * [[Italian draughts]] * [[Lines of Action]] * [[Pool checkers]] * [[Russian checkers]] The following games require an 8Γ8 board and are sometimes played on a [[chessboard]]. * [[Arimaa]] * [[Breakthrough (board game)|Breakthrough]] * [[Crossings (game)|Crossings]] * [[Mak-yek]] * [[Makruk]] * [[Martian Chess]]
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