Learn the correct rules
Understand the official tournament rules, including mandatory capturing, majority capture, kings, and the rules that many beginners miss.
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How To Play Checkers in 1 Hour!
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That’s all the time you need to start your adventure with checkers. Although there are many variants of checkers played around the world, they share several common ideas. In this course, you learn on a 64-square board, characteristic of Brazilian draughts and American checkers, but the essential mechanisms taught here will help you play better in many different versions of the game.
7 lessons7 video materials5 puzzles6 quizzes
What you'll learn
- How checkers is played on a 64-square board used in Brazilian draughts and American checkers.
- The most important shared rules: mandatory capturing, one-square movement, kings, and winning by capturing all pieces.
- What majority capture means and why it can completely change the game.
- How combinations work and why sometimes giving away a piece is the best move.
- How to place your pieces to increase your chances of winning.
- How kings work, why king endings can be drawn, and how to fight against your opponent’s king.
- How to start a game so that after just a few moves, you already understand what you are trying to achieve.
- How to use the skills from this course in many different variants of checkers.
Original English course
Checkers in 1 Hour!
That’s all the time you need to start your adventure with checkers. Although there are many variants of checkers played around the world, they share several common ideas. In this course, you learn on a 64-square board, characteristic of Brazilian draughts and American checkers, but the essential mechanisms taught here will help you play better in many different versions of the game.
Master combinations
Discover smart tactical tricks that use the rules of checkers to win material, create threats, and sometimes win instantly.
Build winning habits
Learn how to place your pieces, start the game wisely, use kings, and make better decisions from the very beginning.
What you will learn
- ✓ How checkers is played on a 64-square board used in Brazilian draughts and American checkers.
- ✓ The most important shared rules: mandatory capturing, one-square movement, kings, and winning by capturing all pieces.
- ✓ What majority capture means and why it can completely change the game.
- ✓ How combinations work and why sometimes giving away a piece is the best move.
- ✓ How to place your pieces to increase your chances of winning.
- ✓ How kings work, why king endings can be drawn, and how to fight against your opponent’s king.
- ✓ How to start a game so that after just a few moves, you already understand what you are trying to achieve.
- ✓ How to use the skills from this course in many different variants of checkers.
A great first course for every checkers player.
This course is taught on a 64-square board, which is characteristic of Brazilian draughts and American checkers.
At the same time, the ideas you learn here — calculation, tactics, planning, piece activity, king play, and better decision-making —
are useful in many forms of checkers played around the world.
Checkers develops much more than board skills.
By going through the course, you will train memory, focus, imagination, logical thinking, and decision-making.
And if it turns out you have a talent for it, the world of checkers is wide open to you.
Maybe one day you will become a champion — or even a world champion.
Course content
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About the Course
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Quiz: About the Course
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International Draughts Beginner Course — Lesson 1: Checkers or Draughts?
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Rules of Checkers
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Quiz: Rules of Checkers
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Exercises: Rules of Checkers
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International Draughts Beginner Course — Lesson 2: The Board
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International Draughts Beginner Course — Lesson 3: How Men and Kings Move and Capture
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