This is how I have made all the checkerboard diagrams on my pages, including the one you see right here. Save file 64100144.BMP under a second name, or in a second subdirectory, in order to have a spare copy. The center is located on the same square block as the Brooklyn Academy of Music and the Williamsburg Bank Building, the tallest building in Brooklyn. There are actually many variations of checkers. Most people in the United States are probably familiar with straight checkers, also known as English draughts.
Men move and jump forward only.
Kings move and jump forward and backward. This is true of Italian checkers as well, but in Italian checkers men may not jump kings. In pool, Russian, international and Canadian checkers, the latter two played on larger boards, men jump forward or backward, just as a king in straight and Italian checkers. Also in these four variations, kings cross the board in one move, whether jumping or making a simple move. In Spanish checkers men move and jump forward only, but kings cross the board in one move, so this variation is, so to speak, halfway between the other two types.