Best Free Checkers Game
Move and jump diagonally, crown kings, and capture the computer’s pieces - pick your difficulty.
Level 1
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How to play
- Move diagonally. Click one of your red pieces, then a highlighted dark square to move it forward on the diagonal.
- Jump to capture. Leap over an adjacent computer piece into the empty square behind it to capture - chained jumps count as one move.
- Crown kings and clear the board. Reach the far row to make a king, then capture every computer piece - or block all its moves - to win.
About Checkers
Checkers - known as English draughts - is the classic 8×8 board game of diagonal moves and jumps. You play the red pieces along the bottom and the computer plays the dark pieces; pieces move one square diagonally forward, and you capture by jumping over a computer piece into the empty square beyond. Land a chain of jumps in a single turn when the path is open. Reach the far row and your piece is crowned a king, free to move and capture in both directions. Take all of the computer's pieces - or leave it with no legal move - to win. No signup, no download.
Frequently asked questions
Each side has 12 pieces on the dark squares. Pieces move one square diagonally forward to an empty dark square. You capture by jumping over an adjacent opponent piece into the empty square beyond. You play red and move first; win by capturing all the computer’s pieces or leaving it with no legal move.
No - captures are not forced here, so you can choose a quiet move even when a jump is available. But when you do jump and the same piece can keep jumping, the whole chain is taken in one turn.
When one of your pieces reaches the far back row it is crowned a king. Kings may move and capture diagonally in both directions, making them much stronger than ordinary men.
They are the same game; "checkers" is the American name and "draughts" the British one. This version uses the standard 8×8 English draughts rules.
Easy makes random legal moves, Normal greedily prefers captures and crowning, and Hard reads several moves ahead with a material-based search.
Completely free, with no signup, no download and no paywall - it runs entirely in your browser and nothing is uploaded.
Yes. It runs in your browser, so Checkers works on phones and tablets as well as desktop - there is no app to install.
No. Checkers works with no signup at all; an optional free account only exists to unlock higher usage limits.
Usually just a few seconds for a typical file - Checkers starts working the moment you give it your input.
Your input is processed in memory and never stored, so nothing is left behind once you have your result.