your toddler-preschooler already grown up and it is quite assiduous training for board games?Tell him how to play checkers.A new hobby will help to develop intellectual abilities that will contribute to the coming of good learning.
Checkers - a fascinating board game
Everyone knows that sports are not only moving, but also board games - checkers and chess.The story of their origin is rooted in the distant past.Some historians believe that they came up with a warrior Greek Palamedes during the ten-year siege of Troy, and others believe in this ancient Egyptian origin fun.As a result of excavation, archaeologists found similar in appearance sets of boards with a mesh or square and round chips on the territory of Kievan Rus, Sweden, Norway and many other countries.This means that the bombs have long been particularly popular because of its simplicity and at the same time need to have quite a sharp mind in order to master this, you can say, science.And in our time, this board game attracts all - from small to large.It is noteworthy that produced even a mini-checkers small size, designed for a useful pastime while traveling, and the chips have special feet for a firm attachment to the playing field.
Types checkers
Historically, that in every country this hobby has acquired over time its distinctive features.How to play checkers, such as Armenian or Brazilian?Let's get acquainted with the rules of some countries:
International .The rules are similar to the Russian game, but the game board consists of a hundred cells (10 to 10).Kings can be only the sword, which ended the fight in the same field (for example, that is not possible with a long set of moves and bruising of the enemy).
English .The game is largely similar to Russian drafts.The differences lie in the prohibition to beat in the opposite direction and demand of finding damok only one playing field.
Armenian .Checkers do not move diagonally and perpendicularly crossing different color cells.Just as in English, there is a ban to destroy the opponent's pieces move back.
Brazilian .Rules, as in the international, and the playing field - as in Russian: 8 8 cells with 12 chips from each opponent.
Spanish .There are Brazilian rules, but bombs are located on the white cells when rotated 90 degrees to the playing field.You can not hit back.
basic rules of the game of checkers (Russian) for simple pawns
to learn the basic principles that need to guide the movement of the chips on the field, bityu the enemy and turning to the Kings.Pay particular attention to the distinctive features of the game when the status changes at the checkers.Terms of the final stage (after the appearance of damok) acquire other conditions and are described later in this article.
- The board is the same as chess, and consists of alternating color 64 squares (8 horizontal and 8 vertical).
- Each opponent has 12 checkers, which are initially arranged in three rows on the black cells.
- Fold on the board is the dividing line field players.
- moves are made alternately in a diagonal direction only dark cells.
- at a time you can simultaneously beat (remove the board), several drafts of the enemy, if they are arranged so that between them there are free cells for the moves.
- direction of movement can be changed (right, left).The reversal may be only in the case of beating the enemy.
- All affected chips removed from the board only after completion of the course.
Terms final stage of the game
- Conversion to Kings possible when the opposite row (entry to the enemy).Usually chip flips, but sometimes in the game set elements are specially marked with the corresponding color.
- A king has the right to move to any number of cells in any diagonal direction.
- Denial of beating the enemy of Kings should not be so, because of this rule, "crowned heads" often fall into the trap.
- winner is the player who takes all the opponent's checkers, or creates a situation where he can not make any progress.
- Draw determined after three repetitions of the same moves and the inability to make others.
- Record Party carried out by determining the location of cells by applying to the board near each square of numbers on the left vertical line of the board and the letters on the bottom horizontal line.
version of the rules
But our people like to deviate from the standards, so in simple everyday life often have some interesting interpretations of the unified rules of the game in Russian Checkers.Especially children fantasize.I'm sure many remember the eccentric "giveaway" when the goal of the game - not to beat the enemy, and as soon as possible to play, putting the beat of his chips.How to play checkers, following such "rules"?Variants - a lot!Here are some of them:
Stavropol .The game participant can in order for their turn to make a move not own chips, and the enemy.
Pole-.The field move checkers, under which is lined with the trophy of the enemy.
Samoyeds .According to the rules is required not only to beat the opponent's checkers, but your own.
How to play Chinese checkers?
This board game is very different from the traditional as the rules and content.Firstly, immediately catches the eye the appearance of the board, which has the shape of a six-pointed star.Secondly, the checkers are replaced by chips.In the game can be played by two to six players (maximum - the number of colors used).What are the rules?Checkers are located on the tops of the stars, their number depends on the size of the field, and ranges from six to ten.He starts to move very "bright" player.Further, the order changes in a clockwise direction.The goal - to reach the opposite end of the star.According to the rules, you can move in any direction, jumping at the same time someone else's chips, for which there is a free cell.Who is the first to reach the desired goal - the winner.
not it simple and easy to understand how to play checkers?Try it!And you certainly will succeed!
