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ALBERT LEE MCS1 PD. 5
This is the board game checkers. It follows the same rules as regular checkers, but without double-jumps, or triple-jumps, etc. The goal of the game is to jump every single of your opponent's pieces. Jumping pieces is done by jumping diagonally, over an opponent's piece. Only one color of the board is used for moving. Players take turns moving. On a regular move, when you don't want to jump an opponents piece, movement of one diagonal space is allowed. A red piece can only move in the direction toward the black pieces when the board is set up, and the black pieces do likewise. However, when either player's pieces get to the other end of the board, they become a king, known as "kinging," and either color king can move both forwards and backwards. The same one diagonal space rule applies, unless the king jumps, which it can jump also either forwards or backwards.
In my program, there are two steps to moving. First, you select the piece with your mouse. Then, you select the patch that you want to move the piece to. If you select a piece and select another piece instead of the patch, instead of moving the initially selected piece to that new piece, the new piece becomes selected, and the same rule of moving applies. To jump a piece, select the piece you want to jump with, and if the piece you want to jump is "jumpable," which means that the piece you want to jump with is one space diagonally with the piece you want to jump, and the next patch in that direction has no pieces. After selecting the piece you want to jump with, select that patch with no pieces. The "jumped" piece leaves the board.