What Is Russian Checkers

Chess rules

At the beginning of the game, the player with white moves first, and then the two players take turns. until the game is over.

(1) Soldier's move and eating rules:

1. Soldiers can only move forward diagonally one space at a time to one space in the next row. When soldiers move, they can only move forward, not backward.

2. When a pawn of one's own side encounters an opponent's pawn adjacent to it on the diagonal line where it is located, if the opponent's pawn is followed by a space, the pawn of one's own side must jump over the opponent's pawn. This piece, and occupy this space, at the same time the opponent's piece must be removed from the chessboard immediately, this is the process of pawn capture. The pawn can go forward or backward to capture the opponent's pieces.

3. In the process of capturing a pawn, when it encounters another opponent's pawn adjacent to it, and the opponent's pawn is also a space behind it, then the pawn must skip the second, third and More pieces that can be captured will eventually occupy the empty space behind the last captured piece. The captured pieces are taken from the board one by one in the order in which the captured pieces rise or fall.

In the process of continuously capturing pieces, the pawn is allowed to jump to the same space multiple times, but it is forbidden to jump to the same piece of the opponent for the second time. Also in the process of continuously capturing pieces, it is forbidden to jump over your own pieces.

(2) Wang's moves and rules of eating children:

1. When a pawn walks to and stops within any promotion space on the opponent's bottom line, it will be promoted to king, and another pawn of the same color (ie the same side) will be stacked on top of this pawn. To represent. The king can move any number of squares forward and backward on the diagonal line it is on.

2. When a king of one's own side encounters one of the opponent's adjacent or non-adjacent chess pieces on the same diagonal line, if there is one or more spaces behind the opponent's chess piece, then the king The opponent's piece must be jumped over and occupy any space behind it, and the opponent's piece must be removed from the board immediately. This is the king's eating process. The king can capture the opponent's pieces either forward or backward.

3. When the king encounters another adjacent or non-adjacent piece of the opponent on the same diagonal line or another diagonal line perpendicular to it in the process of capturing a piece, if the opponent's piece is There is one or more spaces behind, then the king must jump over the opponent's second, third and more pieces that can be captured, and eventually occupy the same slash as the last captured pawn Go to any space at the back, and the captured pieces will be taken from the board one by one in the order in which the captured pieces rise or fall. This is the whole process of Wang's continuous eating.

In the process of continuously capturing pieces, Wang is allowed to jump to the same space multiple times, but it is forbidden to jump to the same piece of the opponent for the second time. Also in the process of continuously capturing pieces, it is forbidden to jump over your own pieces.

(3) Must-eat rules

When the king and the pawn have the opportunity to jump to capture the opponent's piece, regardless of whether it is beneficial to them or not, the rules require that they must choose the move to capture the opponent's piece.

Russian checkers

(4) Self-selection rules

When the king and the pawn are jumping to capture each other's pieces, if there is more than one way to capture the pieces on the chessboard, the party that captures the pieces can freely choose any one of them.

White can choose 1.h6:f8:d6:b4 to grab the sub, or 1.h6:f4, or 1.h4:f6. The Russian checkers rules allow for this variety of choices, the self-selection rule.

(5) Promotion rules

When a pawn walks and stops within any promotion square on the opponent's baseline, it must be promoted to king.

When a pawn can only pass through any promotion space on the opponent's bottom line, and cannot stay in any promotion space, it can and must be promoted to king. And when you continue to eat, you must jump according to Wang Qi's move.

White must choose the 1.h2:f4:h6:f8:b4:e1 capture route, and the move from f8 to b4 to e1 is the king move. This rule of Russian checkers is different from international checkers.