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In article <12100002@umn-cs.UUCP> ravikuma@umn-cs.UUCP writes:
> This is in response to a question on chesskers. It
>is just the game of checkers played with chess pieces.

There was a game written up in Martin Gardner's Mathematical Games column
in Scientific American at one point (60's?) which I am fairly sure was
called Chesskers.  It is played on the squares of one color on a chess-
or checker-board, using both chess and checker pieces.  I believe the
initial setup is as follows:

  B   K   K   N
    M   M   M   M
  M   M   M   M
    -   -   -   -
  -   -   -   -
    m   m   m   m
  m   m   m   m
    n   k   k   b

The men are checkers men, and the kings are checkers kings.  The bishop is
an ordinary chess bishop.  The knight is called a cook; it moves three spaces
in one direction and one at right angles (unlike the chess knight which moves
two and one).  I may have the knight and bishop interchanged.

I think the object, as in checkers, was to deprive one's opponent of any legal
moves (usually by capturing all his pieces).  I don't remember the details of
the rules, such as whether men can be promoted to any piece or just kings, or
whether and in what cases pieces are forced to capture.

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