Travel Chess & Checkers
(600-2219)         Basic Checkers Instructions        Faxback Doc. # 57707

Basic Checkers Instructions

Checkers is a game for two players (or one player against the computer).  
Each player gets 12 checker pieces on his side.  The aim of the game is to 
leave your opponent with no legal move, either by taking all of his pieces
or by blocking his pieces.

Each player takes turns to move one black square onto the next free black 
square.  A piece is captured by jumping over your opponent's piece to an 
empty square on the other side of the jumped piece.  The captured piece is 
then removed from the board. When a piece reaches a square on the opposite
last row, it is promoted to a king.  A king can move and jump backward as
well as forward.  Each player can have more than one king.  A piece can
never jump over its own pieces. 

Note:  Your Travel Chess and Checkers also comes with four "kinged" pieces
       (look like doubled or stacked checker pieces) for each color that
       can be substituted when a checkers piece is promoted to a king.
       (See "King Promotion" in Faxback Doc. # 57708.)

Setting Up

Here's how to set up the game board. 

Set the board in front of you so the display and buttons are to the front 
and the right of you.  Set up the black checkers on the side of the board 
closest to you this way:

Place black checkers on A1, C1, E1, G1, B2, D2, F2, H2, A3, C3, E3, G3.

Place red checkers on B8, D8, F8, H8, A7, C7, E7, G7, B6, D6, F6, H6.

Notes:  The Rows are numbered from 1 through 8 starting at the row nearest
        you.

        The Columns are lettered from A through H starting with the first
        Column on your left.

(BR EB 11/29/99)