Checkers

The well-known board game

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What is it about?

Checkers, or draughts, is a game for two players. It can be played on a regular 8x8 chess board. Black starts. Each player starts with 8 Men which can move only one tile forward diagonally or jump over an enemy piece. When a Man reaches the back line of his enemy, he is promoted to a King which can move many pieces diagonally and in both ways. The player who has lost every piece loses the game.

Creator

This project was created by Adrián Szegedi, a student of Informatics at the Technical University of Košice, as an assignment for a subject about Component based programming, mainly in Java.

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