English Checkers Free

English Checkers Free is a classic strategy game where you can challenge a powerful engine or play online with real opponents. With levels ranging from beginner to World Champion, you'll find the perfect match for your skills. Enjoy interactive hints, undo moves, and even play with a friend on the same screen. Customize your game and improve with every move.

How to Play English Checkers Free

In this game, you have several options: you can play with the computer, play online, play with friends, or play together. The mandatory rules are simple but important. You must jump over your opponent’s checker to capture it. A simple checker moves diagonally forward by one square and can only move forward. If there’s an empty square behind your opponent’s checker, you can jump over it and land there. If you have multiple capturing opportunities, you can choose which one to take. You continue jumping until no more captures are possible.

If your checker reaches the last row, it is crowned and becomes a king. A king can move diagonally both forward and backward. When jumping, the king can capture multiple opponent’s pieces and must continue capturing as long as possible. The player must jump whenever possible, and if there are several jumping options, they can pick any of them.

You can choose your opponent and enable hints or apply a handicap, such as making captures mandatory. You can also select your side (black or white) before starting the game. There are eight difficulty levels, ranging from Beginner to World Champion, and interactive tips are provided to help you improve your gameplay. You can cancel a move and go back if needed, replay the game from any point, and interact with your opponent through funny cartoon emotions. The game can be played with real live players, and you can choose between different time control modes like unlimited, bullet, blitz, rapid, or classic.

In terms of gameplay, when a checker reaches the last row, it is crowned and can move both forward and backward. If your checker is next to your opponent’s checker and there’s an open square behind it, you must jump and capture the checker. If one jump leads to another, you continue with the next jump as part of the same turn. If your checker reaches the last row and is crowned, you cannot make further jumps during that turn. Jumping is mandatory, and if you have more than one option, you can choose which one to take. Regular checkers can only capture forward, while kings can capture both forward and backward.

You win the game by capturing all of your opponent’s checkers or by blocking your opponent completely so they cannot move.

Rules of the game:

When a checker reaches the last row of the board, he is “kinged” or “crowned” and becomes a king. A king moves the same way as a regular checker, except he can move forward or backward.

On your turn, if your checker is next to your opponent’s checker, and the black square behind your opponent’s checker is open, you must jump over it and capture it. If one jump leads to another jump, you then continue with the next jump as part of the same turn. Continue in this way until all possible jumps are complete. If your checker jumps to the last row and is crowned, you may not make any further jumps, your turn is over.

Jumping is compulsory. If you have the opportunity to jump and capture an opponent’s checker, you must take it. If you have more than one capturing opportunity, you may choose whichever you prefer.

An ordinary checker can capture only forward. King checkers can capture both forward and backward.

A player wins the game when they capture all of their opponent’s checkers, or when they block their opponent completely and the opponent cannot move.

Features

Powerful engine

8 difficulty levels from Beginner to World Champion

Display of possible moves when choosing a piece

Interactive tips on how to play better during the game

Cancel the move, if there was a yawn, you can go back

The ability to replay the game from the right place

Interact with the opponent through funny cartoon emotions

Real live players

Saving the rating

Chess together on the same screen

Selection of time control modes: unlimited, bullet, blitz, rapid, classic

Choose the design of the shapes and the board

View the history of moves

Release Date

August 2024

Platform

Web browser (desktop and mobile)

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