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Checkers board game with International,English, Brazilian and Russian rules.International checkers (also called Polish draughts) - The boardsize is 10X10 with 20 pieces on each side and has flying kings.Unlike in chess the playing fields are numbered just by the numbersfrom 1 to 50. In this variant of the game, the player with thelightest colored pieces moves first. Pieces, although sometimesbought in a set, originally are sold is groups of eleven pieces allof a like color. This has lead to the coinage of the term draughtsdozen. Also, because the lighter color moves first often thelighter colored pieces are more expensive and bought by moreexperienced players. If there are many sequences to capture, onehas to capture the sequence that has the most pieces. If a mantouches the kings row from a jump and it can continue to jumpbackwards, it has to jump backwards, but it is not kinged. It ismainly played in the Netherlands, France, some eastern Europeancountries, some parts of Africa, some parts of the former USSR, andother European countries.English draughts is our main Checkers game - Also calledAmerican checkers or "straight checkers". It is played on an 8X8board with 12 pieces on each side. Black (the darker color) movesfirst. Men (the uncrowned pieces) can only move and captureforward. When there is more than one way for a player to jump, onemay choose which sequence to make, not necessarily the sequencethat will result in the greatest number of captures. However, onemust make all the captures in that sequence.Brazilian checkers - Exactly the same rules as internationaldraughts, but it is played on an 8X8 board with eight "men" (orpieces) to begin the game with. It is mainly played in Brazil.Russian checkers - Exactly the same rules as Brazilian checkers,but if a man touches the kings row from a jump and it can continueto jump backwards, it has to jump backwards as kings, not men. Itis mainly played in some parts in Russia, some parts of the formerUSSR, and Israel. In many games at the end one adversary has threekings while the other one has just one king. In such a case thefirst adversary normally wins if (s)he occupies the main diagonalfirst and then builds the so-called Petrov's triangle.