Games Using Checkerboards
A square checkerboard is with an alternating pattern is used for include:
- Amazons
- Chapayev
- Chess
- Chess variants on square boards
- Czech draughts
- Draughts
- Frisian draughts
- Gounki
- International draughts
- Italian draughts
- Lines of Action
- Pool checkers
- Russian checkers
- Turkish draughts
The following games require an 8×8 board and are sometimes played on a chessboard.
- Arimaa
- Breakthrough
- Crossings
- Mak-yek
- Makruk
- Martian Chess
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