Canadian checkers (or Canadian draughts) is a variant of the

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draughts Checkers (American English), also known as draughts (; Commonwealth English), 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. ...

. It is one of the largest draughts games, played on a 12×12 checkered board with 30 game pieces per player.

History

The game was invented by the French settlers of

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, Canada; it was named ''Grand jeu de dames''. It is unknown when the game was first played in Canada. The ''huff'' rule was dropped in 1880 after a dispute developed during the Canadian championship match. The idea of an increased-size international draughts game is older still; boards with 12×12 squares were on sale in London in 1805.

Game rules

Canadian checkers follows the same rules and conventions as

international draughts International draughts (also called international checkers or Polish draughts) is a Abstract strategy, strategy board game for two players, one of the variants of draughts. The gameboard comprises 10×10 squares in alternating dark and light co ...

, the only differences are the larger gameboard (12×12 squares instead of 10×10), and more checkers per player (30 instead of 20). The starting setup is shown in the diagram.

Notation

Games are recorded using the same method of notation used by other draughts variants, extended for a board of 144 squares (see diagram).

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