CHESMAYNE
Chequers - Checkers
This is the Simpson Checker Collection with
Bart and Lisa. The checker board is a
17” folding board with 24 playing pieces plus 12 gold crowns for
“kinging”.
A pattern of cells/squares. A draught board (especially an Inn
sign). A marble or similar token used
in Chinese chequers. To diversify in colour, variegate. To diversify in character,
subject to alterations.
Draughtboard. Also U.S:
checkerboard. The British PMs
official country residence, situated near Aylesbury in
Buckinghamshire. Checker work: the ‘net work pattern’ on the pillars of the temple mentioned in 1st
KIs (Bible). Milton: “...many a youth, and many a maid, dancing in the Chequer’d shade”. A.
Anderson was the world checker champion in 1851. Newell Banks was the only American master of chess and
checkers. The first checker column
appeared in the New York Clipper (1856) beside the chess column. The record for simultaneous
blindfold draught games is 28.
01 The object of the game is to
take or trap all your
opponent’s MPs/mps.
02 To set-up the board: the
right-hand corner cell of each player can be an XD or XL
coloured cell.
03 The mps are placed on the XD or XL cells.
04 :A always commences a game [dark or light
pieces].
05 Players take turns at moving
one of their MPs/mps.
06 Each piece [mp] may only be
moved diagonally
forward onto an adjacent empty cell/square.
07 If an adjacent cell/square is
occupied by one of your opponent’s pieces and the cell beyond is empty you may capture
by jumping (:ju) over it and landing on the empty cell/square beyond.
08 Captured pieces are removed from the board.
09 If the capturing piece can
then continue to leap (:ju) over other opponent’s pieces, they are also
captured and removed from play.
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10 Kinglets: if a mp is moved
onto one of the cells/squares on the far end of the board it becomes a kinglet
(K01, K02, K03 etc). This is called
‘crowning’.
11 The kinglet may move forwards
or backwards. There may be several
kinglets in play during a game.
12 Draughts. ISP (Initial Starting Position).
13 ‘Tis all a
chequer-board of nights and days,
Where
Destiny with Men for pieces plays;
Hither
and thither moves, and mates, and slays,
And one
by one back in the closet lays.