English draughts, known simply as draughts in the United Kingdom and some other countries, and also called American checkers, straight checkers, or simply checkers,'s a form of the draughts board game played on an 8×8 board with 12 pieces on each side that may only initially move and capture diagonally forwards. Only when a piece's "kinged" may it move backwards or forwards. As in all draughts variants, English draughts's played by two people, on opposite sides of a playing board, alternat… (More on Checkers)