Checkers
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Checkers, also known as draughts, is a group of strategy board games for two players which involve forward movements of uniform game pieces and mandatory captures by jumping over opponent pieces. Chec
Starting position for American checkers on an 8×8 checkerboard; Black (red) moves first.
Opening of the Bornova International Turkish draughts Tournament
10×10 board, starting position in international draughts
8×8 board, starting position in Italian and Portuguese draughts
Solved game
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A solved game is a game whose outcome can be correctly predicted from any position, assuming that both players play perfectly. This concept is usually applied to abstract strategy games, and especiall
Checkers
…on 8×8 boards. Canadian checkers and Malaysian/Singaporean checkers (also locally known as dam) are played on a 12×12 board. American checkers was weakly solved in 2007 by a team of Canadian computer scientists led by Jonathan Schaeffer. From the standard starting position, perfect play by each side will result…
The game of Connect Four has been solved.