How to play Russian checkers step by step: rules for beginners
To entertain children, especially schoolchildren in their free time, there are many entertainments and games.
Board games are popular, among them one can note the game of Russian checkers. Before you start playing it correctly, you need to learn its basic rules.
It is allowed to play it for children and adults with different age categories, an important stage is the study and understanding of the essence of the game. It will be more useful for children to start training from the age of 5.
The board game helps children:
- Train your memory.
- Develop mental abilities and skills.
- Develop logic and thinking.
- Strengthen math skills.
- Develops perseverance.
It is important to note! It is allowed to play checkers (the rules are the same in many games) even at preschool age in order to develop the skills that are needed at school.
It is the most educational game among many others.
You will need the following accessories to play:
- Game board consisting of 64 squares, half black and white.
- Game pieces total 24 pieces. For each player, drops out, 12 pieces.
- 2 players take part in the new game.
- The main purpose of entertainment is to win.
Winnings are counted if the players do not have any chips left. Or the player himself recognizes the loss. It can be a draw if both players cannot win.
Let us briefly consider the basic rules for playing checkers for beginners:
- The game board is set between the two participants in the correct position so that the dark field is on the left.
- Which chips will be awarded is determined by drawing lots.
- You need to arrange them on the corresponding colors, in total you get 3 horizontal rows.
- The right of the first move is given to children who have white chips.
- Moves must be made diagonally to a free cell.
- There are simple pawns and kings in the game. Ordinary ones are able to hit and walk through 1 cell of their color. It is worth remembering how the lady walks. She walks and hits diagonally, for a different number of cells.
- Those who have reached the last upper cell are recognized as queens, they are turned over and recognized as queens.
- Simple pawns can be pushed back and forth, after which they are removed from the board.
It is important to note! Many doubt whether it is necessary to beat the opponent's checker. Necessarily, this phenomenon serves as a prerequisite.
The opponent deliberately substitutes his chip in order to quickly get to the very top and get a king.
For beginners, there are basic conditions:
- Moves must be made in turn.
- The move is considered completed after the participant removes his hands from the field.
- The participant must walk after touching the chip.
- It is not allowed to move objects on the playing field.
Checkers rules for beginners
Checkers can be played in a variety of games, giveaway, Russian checkers, Japanese, as well as corners. They are considered the most ancient board game.
2 opposing players take part in it. The goal of the game is to move your checkers to the place of the opponent.
In every fun there are basic conditions. Consider the basic rules of the game in the corners of checkers:
- A board is placed between two people in the correct position. The participant chooses the color of the checkers.
- The player must place a house of checkers. One puts up at the top of the board on the right, and the second participant at the bottom left.
- The house is built in the form of a rectangle, 4 checkers are placed in length, 3 pieces in height.
- With the help of horizontal and vertical movements of checkers, the opponent must build moves for himself in order to quickly move all the components to the opponent's place.
- It is allowed to jump over one, two or three checkers. You can stop the moves at any time.
- One of the participants was the first to transfer all the checkers to the opposite place of the opponent.
- The opponent has made more than 40 moves, and there are unremoved chips on his main field.
- After 40 moves, the participant returned the chip to its main place.
Many beginners do not know what can and cannot be done in the game corners. You cannot make asymmetrical moves.
You can jump vertically and horizontally. It is allowed to walk once, but make several jumps on empty cells.
Important to remember! In order to quickly learn how to play corners for children, you need to train regularly, as well as learn the basic rules and purpose of the game.
Rules for playing Chapaev checkers
There is a board game of checkers "Chapaev", which appeared and was the most common in ancient times. This entertainment got its name in honor of the war hero in the Soviet Union.
For fun, a chessboard and a set of checkers, which consists of 12 white and 12 black pieces, were used.
For the first time fun appeared in Egypt. And only in the 19th century such tournaments were held in Russia.
Consider step by step, the rules of the game in Chapaev:
- Each side must arrange the checkers in horizontal rows, 8 pieces in each row.
- The opponent must click on the chips to knock everything out of the opponent.
- The end of the game will be considered when all the figures are knocked out from the opponent.
- The opponent starts the move after one participant loses his piece, or cannot knock out someone else's.
- The player who was the first to knock out all the chips from the opponent moves one row higher in the second round.
For Soviet fun, various types of checkers can be used. They are:
- Classic.
- International.
- American.
- Italian.
- Canadian.
- Brazilian.
All species are similar to each other.
To compare their specific characteristics, the table will help us:
To achieve the desired success in any interesting entertainment, special attention is required to the basic rules of the game. Knowledge and skill come only after long training, thinking and development of tactics.
