This is gonna be tricky-tricky! I remember when we all played chess. I couldn't remember my strategies for any board and lost nearly every game. LET'S SEE IF THAT HAPPENS WITH CHECKERS!

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How to play:

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• Black goes first. YOU are black. Email me at Community@progress.com with your opening move. Please see the grid below. It has numbers for every valid space to make it easy to navigate. Tell me something along the lines of: "Move the piece on square 10 to square 15."
• Starting on Tuesday 9/2, I promise at least two moves a day per board so we can keep this going, but you can play as few moves as you'd like. We only have until Sept 30th to determine a winner, though! Do your best!

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What do you get?

• If you win: 30 points
• If you lose: 15 points
• If you stop playing in the middle: 5 points

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If we don't finish the game by the end of September, whoever has the most pieces on the board wins. If it's a tie, I'll let you win, because I have no ego to worry about bruising. 😂

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Rules of Checkers:

• ​Pieces only move on the dark squares.
• Players cannot skip a turn; they must move a piece if possible.
• Each piece can only move one square diagonally forward at a time, with the exception of a King.
  • To get a King, you must reach your opponent's back row. At that point, that specific piece will become a King. A King can move and jump diagonally in any direction.
• A piece can capture an opponent's piece by jumping over it diagonally to an empty square directly behind the opponent's piece. 
  • A captured piece is removed from the board. 
  • If, after a jump, your piece is in a position to make another jump over an opponent's piece, you can continue jumping. This is a multi-jump. 
  • Mandatory Jumps: If you have an available jump or multi-jump, you are required to make it; you cannot choose to make a regular move instead. 
• You win by capturing all of your opponent's pieces.
• You also win if you block your opponent so they have no legal moves left.

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Here is our game board. Please make note of the numbers on the dark squares.

GOOD LUCK!

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