Online Checkers games let you play the checkered-board classic different ways any time of day. Try the classic game of Checkers. Although the first published description of this game was only in 1756, the game is thought to have originated almost 6,000 years. Win Download Windows 7.

A typical pitted-wood gameboard using six differently colored sets of marbles. Ovation Applause Serial Numbers there. Another popular format uses colored pegs in holes. Genre(s) Players 2–4 or 6 Setup time ~1 minute Playing time 10–30 minutes Random chance None Skill(s) required, tactics Synonym(s) Stern-Halma Star Halma Hop Ching Checkers Tiao-qi ('Jump chess') Chinese checkers (US and Canadian spelling) or Chinese chequers (UK spelling) is a of German origin (named 'Sternhalma') which can be played by two, three, four, or six people, playing individually or with partners. The game is a modern and simplified variant of the game. The objective is to be first to race all of one's pieces across the -shaped board into 'home'—the corner of the star opposite one's starting corner—using single-step moves or moves that over other pieces. The remaining players continue the game to establish second-, third-, fourth-, fifth-, and last-place finishers. The rules are simple, so even young children can play.