--- title: "Play Checkers Online - Free" description: "Play checkers (draughts) online for free in your browser. Challenge friends in multiplayer or test your strategy against bots on phone, tablet or PC." canonical_url: "https://game-circle.de/games/checkers" locale: en meta: author: GameCircle keywords: "Games, Online, Multiplayer, Browser Games" "og:description": "Play checkers (draughts) online for free in your browser. Challenge friends in multiplayer or test your strategy against bots on phone, tablet or PC." "og:title": "Play Checkers Online - Free" --- > Index of every page on this site: [llms.txt](https://game-circle.de/llms.txt) # **Checkers** Here you can play the Checkers in multiplayer and compete against bots. Have fun playing! [Analysis board](https://game-circle.de/games/checkers/analysis) 2 - 2 Players Bots available Engine analysis **Open Lobbies** Loading lobbies... ## **Analyze your games** An engine goes through your game move by move and shows you where you played well and where the game turned. Free, no subscription and no daily limit. [**Open analysis board **](https://game-circle.de/games/checkers/analysis) - ### **After the game** Open “Analyze game” after every finished game: each move gets a grade, from best move to blunder. - ### **Free analysis board** Set up any position, try out variations and let the engine calculate along. - ### **Load games** Load your GameCircle games with one click or paste a game as a link or as text. ## **Features** ### **Play online with friends** Play Checkers online with your friends. Simply send them a link and play together in real time! ### **Many variants** International, English, Russian, Italian, Spanish and more. Play Checkers the way you know it. **Engine Support** ### **Play against bots** Challenge strong bots and improve your gameplay. Adjust the bot strength to your level! - ![Bot]() **Bot****Easy****Medium****Hard****Very hard****Impossible** - ![Checkers Engine]() **Checkers Engine****Easy****Medium****Hard****Very hard****Impossible** - ![Scan]() **Scan****Medium****Hard****Very hard****Impossible**[**Source code **](https://github.com/rhalbersma/scan) ## **Variants** ### **International Checkers** International Checkers, also known as "Dame 100", is one of the most popular variants of checkers worldwide. It is played on a 10x10 board. The pieces move diagonally across the board. #### **Rules** - **10x10 Game Board** - **Long king moves enabled** - **Backwards capture allowed** - **Must take maximum men** ### **English Checkers** English Checkers, sometimes also known as "American Checkers", is played on an 8x8 board. The pieces move diagonally. #### **Rules** - **8x8 Game Board** - **Long king moves disabled** - **Backwards capture not allowed** - **Must take first men** ### **Russian Checkers** Russian Checkers, also known as "Russian variant" or "Shashki", is played on an 8x8 board. The pieces move diagonally, and there is the possibility of capturing and jumping backward. #### **Rules** - **8x8 Game Board** - **Long king moves enabled** - **Backwards capture allowed** - **Must take men** ### **Italian Checkers** Italian Checkers, also known as "Dama Italiana", is played on an 8x8 board. The peculiarity here is that pieces can only move forward, not backward. Once a piece reaches the opponent's last row, it becomes a "Dama" (King) and can move in any direction. #### **Rules** - **8x8 Game Board** - **Long king moves disabled** - **Backwards capture not allowed** - **Must take maximum men** - **King is immune to men capture** ### **Italian Checkers** Italian Checkers, also known as "Dama Italiana", is played on an 8x8 board. The peculiarity here is that pieces can only move forward, not backward. Once a piece reaches the opponent's last row, it becomes a "Dama" (King) and can move in any direction. #### **Rules** - **8x8 Game Board** - **Long king moves disabled** - **Backwards capture not allowed** - **Must take maximum men** - **King is immune to men capture** ### **Spanish Checkers** Spanish Checkers, also known as "Damas Españolas", is played on an 8x8 board. #### **Rules** - **8x8 Game Board** - **Long king moves disabled** - **Backwards capture allowed** - **Must take maximum men** ### **Tanzanian Checkers** The uniqueness of Tanzanian Checkers lies in the fact that it is played on an 8x8 board, but only on the dark squares. This means that the game pieces can only move diagonally, resulting in a strategically challenging game. #### **Rules** - **8x8 Game Board** - **Long king moves enabled** - **Backwards capture not allowed** - **Must take men** ## **FAQ** ### **What is Checkers?** Checkers is a classic two-player strategy board game where the objective is to capture all of your opponent's pieces or block them so they cannot move. ### **What is the goal of the game?** The goal of Checkers is to capture or block all opponent's pieces so that the opponent cannot make any valid moves. ### **How do the pieces move?** The pieces can move diagonally forward but only onto the dark squares. A piece can move one square forward diagonally upward or downward if that square is vacant. Pieces can also move backward when they become a King. ### **What are King pieces?** When a piece reaches the opponent's last row, it becomes a King piece. A King piece can move both forward and backward and has more options to capture other pieces. ### **How to capture a piece?** To capture a piece, the player must jump over one of their opponent's pieces to an unoccupied square by moving two squares diagonally. The jumped piece is removed from the board. ## Sitemap See the full [sitemap](https://game-circle.de/sitemap.md) for all pages.