Play 247 Checkers Online

How To Play Checkers at 247 Checkers?

Setting up your first game of checkers is easy on our website. Once you’ve loaded up the web page, click on the “Play” button on your screen. This presents four possible options: 1 Player 2 Player Play Online Daily Challenge For the purpose of this section, we want you to click on “1 Player” to begin a single-player match against the computer.

How To Conduct Moves When Playing 247 Checkers?

We’ve mentioned the terms “capturing” and “jumping” a few times already throughout this guide. Both refer to the basic ways you move around a checkerboard. Unlike chess, every piece on a checkerboard has the same movement rules: You can only move one piece diagonally forward to the next adjacent square.

How To Capture Pieces When Playing 247 Checkers?

You “capture” an opponent’s piece when your tile jumps diagonally over it. Their piece gets removed and 247 Checkers shows you how many captured tiles each player has on the side of the board. You’ll see in the screenshots above there are small red and black tiles with a 0 in each of them. This demonstrates that neither player has captured a tile yet. Once you reach 12 of your opponent's tiles, you win the game!

How To Turn Your Piece Into A King?

Regular pieces can only move forward in checkers, but if you get a piece to the end of the board it turns into a king. Kings become hugely powerful pieces that are effective at trapping your opponent and capturing tiles from behind enemy lines. When your piece becomes a king it can now move forward and backward diagonally at all times!

How To Win 247 Checkers Without Capturing All Your Opponent’s Pieces?

Cast your mind back to the start of this guide and we spoke about the two ways of winning checkers. One is to capture all of your opponent’s pieces but the other is to force them into a position where they can no longer make a valid move. This is hard to do, but the best tactic is by “trapping” their tiles at the side of the board.