About this app

Do you want to play against your 🌟friends🌟 or other players from all over the world? You can choose the following game types:

✔️ New game versus a Robot
✔️ New game versus a Friend
✔️ New multiplayer game versus anyone that's online anywhere in the world

Are you ready to see who's online and challenge them to a game of free multiplayer checkers?!

⁉️ How To Play Online?
In order to play the online multiplayer mode you need to have Google Play Games installed. If it's not yet installed we will notify you and redirect you to the app to install it. It's a Google app and helps us find more players for you to play against. Install the app, create a username and restart the Checkers app. You can now find new players all over the world 😎.

Checkers Rules
Checkers is a classic board game, dating back to around 3000 BC. It is very simple, but a lot of fun! Checkers is known as Draughts in England and there are multiple variations of it all around the world. The game is played on an 8x8 chequered board, essentially a chess board. Each player starts with 12 pieces, placed on the dark squares of the board closest to them. The objective of the game is to kill all the opponent's pieces by jumping over them.

Gameplay
A normal move is moving a piece diagonally forward one square. The initial pieces can only move forward diagonally, not backwards. You cannot move onto a square that is occupied by another piece. However, if an opponent piece is on the square diagonally in front of you and the square behind it is empty then you can (and must!) jump over it diagonally, thereby killing it. If you land on a square where you can kill another opponent piece you must jump over that piece as well, immediately. One turn can kill many pieces. It is required to jump over pieces whenever you can.

If a piece reaches the end row of the board, on the opponent's side, it becomes a King. Kings can move diagonally forwards and backwards, making them more powerful in jumping over opponent pieces. However, if you jump over a piece to become a King you can not jump backwards over another piece in the same move, you have to wait until the next turn to start moving backwards.

Jumping over opponents is required. However, if you have two possible moves, where one jumps over one opponent and the other jumps over two or more opponents you are not required to take the jump with the most opponents killed, you are just required to take any jump move.

Winning

The game can end in four different ways:

✔️ If a player has lost all his pieces he loses.
✔️ If a player can't move at all, all his pieces are blocked, he loses.
✔️ The exact same board state has come up three times without any men killed in between. The game ends in a draw. This is to avoid situation with two pieces left just moving around never being able to kill each other.
✔️ There have been 100 moves (50 for each player) with no piece killed. The game ends in a draw.

New features

Google play games services added
Firebase analytics added

App Permissions

Allows applications to access information about networks.
Allows applications to open network sockets.
Allows read only access to phone state, including the phone number of the device, current cellular network information, the status of any ongoing calls, and a list of any PhoneAccounts registered on the device.
Allows access to the vibrator.
Required to be able to access the camera device.
Allows an application to write to external storage.
Allows an application to read from external storage.
Allows using PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming.