Checkers or Draughts

Checkers or Checkers

Dam is one of the first if not the first game we remember playing with our grandmother, but it is a game that has existed for centuries. It is played by a number of people, and although the game is simple in form of rules, game strategy is very complex. "its antiquity is attested by Homer in the Odyssey, whereas games in the palace of Ulysses in Ithica: and by Plato in his dialogues, often cited as an example."

Dam is widely played board games. It has been played by kings and children alike. Before online games and game consoles pieces were a good way for two sisters to sit down, or, as mentioned above, get up and play. Play checkers many teachers. It is a way to socialize, and learn to lose. It is also a game that allows you to learn and improve your game strategies are skills that are transferable to life outside the magic circle. We must admit that we were never one who was very clever in the strategy of checkers, so my interest disappeared as a child when grandma got me more times than we can remember. 

Checkers is a game that can easily be played by a beginner or an expert player becomes more challenging as a gain expertise. This is one of its popular draws. The game is a strategy game that has been compared with chess. Strategic play can become very complicated and exciting. More serious players have been known to strategize over their movements in hours if not days at a time in history the same way as the way that chess is sometimes played.

I will briefly describe how the game is played. The game of "American" pieces are two players on a board with 64 squares, but there are other versions that play on larger boards such at 100 or 144 squares. Each player makes 12 (or more depending on the game) checkers on their side of the board. The aim is to take all the opposing player's pieces by jumping over them and catch them. Players can only move in one direction until they reach the far end of the board. When a player reaches the top of the opposing team the Board they will be "crowned" allows them to move around the board in all directions. 

It seems that the debate about when the first pieces of origin is not clearly known, but everything I have found dates refer to the game in at least one customer in the centuries BC I think it's interesting and fun to note that the American Checkers Federation made a claim on their website that the pond is the oldest game ever! I think they have some prejudices. But I do not think this is true, and have not found other references to such a declaration.

In England played Scotland, Australia and New Zealand is called drag. The game was introduced to Europe from Egypt about the beginning of the 16th century. From the monumental inscriptions, it seems that the game was known to Egyptians as early as 200 BC The oldest working knowledge of Dam (mother) was published in Valencia, Spain in 1547 by Antonia Torquemado. "

The game of international pond (pond) is played on a 100-square board.

Until the mid-18th century both chess and checkers (pieces) are played at the same table. This situation changed around 1760 when board with 100 seats was introduced. The rules for playing underwent a major change as well. While the 64-square board "short king" was played, and on board with 100 seats, the "long king" was introduced.

The so-called "short king" only move one square at a time, while the "long king" moves diagonally any number of fields at a time.

In addition, each officer or inspector the power to jump backwards, but was not allowed to move backwards.

Also a new rule was introduced, which is always the largest number of men to be taken while the player had the choice between taking the man he wanted, where there was an equal number of pieces to be taken: a king, seen as equivalent to a man in the spring or take men from the board.

Before the 1900 international contacts were difficult, with the result that in a number of other countries, especially in English speaking areas, the boards of 64 squares were retained, and therefore, the game of checkers is no more international matches. Moreover, in a series of non-English speaking countries using the 64-square board room changes were made in the rules so that even the Board lost its universal laws.

This fact in particular has been the biggest disadvantage of playing checkers compared to chess, which is played all over the world in a universal way.

The 100 square is played in countries like France, Holland, Belgium, USSR, Switzerland, Haiti, Canada, Australia, West Indies, Senegal, Monaco, Italy, Morocco, Czechoslovakia, Tunisia and Algeria. It also plays a more limited extent in Singapore, East and West Germany, Portugal and the USA show that in some South American republics, as in Brazil and Venezuela, 64-square pond also played. In Canada, a 144-SQ. The board is popular.

Dam is currently not as popular as it once was in the past, but it is still a widespread and played games. Because the game has changed so much from country to country, it has not been able to become very popular.

Even today we can find numerous variations of the popular red and black checker pieces for example we have seen a version where the Care Bears used instead of round black and red checkers. Popular online tournaments exist at Yahoo Games and Pogo.com and there are a number of downloadable checkers games can be played against a computer.