Cheskers is a two-player abstract strategy game that blends chess and draughts on an ordinary checkerboard. Board Game Matcher dates it to 1948 and notes that it first appeared in a chess fanzine. The starting position is the one used for checkers, except that each player's four back-rank pieces are replaced by two checker kings, one bishop and one cook, which is the inventor's name for a piece that leaps like a camel. Bishops move and capture as in chess, while cooks jump to the far corner of a four-by-two rectangle, so both are confined to dark squares. A checker man that reaches the far row may be promoted to a bishop, a cook or a checker king. The aim is to capture every enemy king, and stalemating the opponent also wins.
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Player Count Sport
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Chess, Games Source Cheskers (Board Game Matcher page)
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1. Cheskers (Board Game Matcher page)
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1948
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Cheskers is a board game for 2 players
Derived From: Chess, About
This game is a combination of chess and checkers.
Derived From: English draughts, About
moving and capturing as in normal American checkers
View the Source2. Cheskers (BoardGameGeek)
- Playing Time: 30
- Designer: Solomon W. Golomb
- Publisher: (Public Domain)
- Game Category: Abstract Strategy
- Game Mechanic: Grid Movement
- Game Mechanic: Pattern Movement
- Game Mechanic: Square Grid
- Game Mechanic: Static Capture
- Minimum Players: 2
- Maximum Players: 2
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