The game of draughts or checkers simplified and explained (1864)
Scattergood, D[avid] [from old catalog] · New York, Dick and Fitzgerald · leaf 7
four squares, of alternate colors, and with 24 pieces, called men, of adverse colors, red and white being' preferable. It is played by two persons placed opposite to each other; the one having the red or black pieces is said to be playing the first side, and the other, having the 12 white, to be… … The men being placed, the game is begun by each of the players moving al- ternately one of his men across the angles of the squares — the black moving first. The men can only move forward, one square at a time, until they have attained the extreme opposite rowr, where they become kings, and are…
Checkers
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