Checkers

 Checkers is type of Toys and Games . It has a long history . Another name of checkers such as draughts ,English draughts , American checkers , straight checkers , or checkers.Checkers is board game.
  Alquerque is the old name of checkers. French played Alquerque on chess board in 12 th century . Later , Alquerque has a new rule that made the game interesting and popular.
  Checkers is played with two player . An 8 x 8 chess board was played in game . Each player has 12 pieces on own side . Player can moved forward or move over the opposite side's piece. How to win the game ,Player must capture all of opposite player's pieces .
  In other country ,There are various board sizes such as  10 x 10 board size in International draughts ,  12 x 12 board size in Canadian checkers , etc
  There is the international sport body uniting national draughts federations ,called World Draughts Federation or FMJD. It's members are in Asia ( 7 federations ) , Africa (13 federations ) , America ( 15 federations or associations ) , Asia ( 7 federations )  , Europe ( 24  federations or organizations ), Oceania ( 1 federation ) .
   Main target of FMJD is for controlling and regulation the competition . FMJD was established in 1947 by four countries such as France , Belgium , Switzerland , the Netherlands .Later ,There were championships of woman in 1973 , girls in 1989 ,cadets in 1988 , juniors in 1971 .
   There are programs ,freeware ,for playing checkers such as Dam2.2 , Dragon , Buggy,etc.
   Other program online such as http://www.vogclub.com/
    

   Reference
   1.http://www.fmjd.org/
   2.http://www.wmsg-draughts.org/
   3.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draughts