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Is a player in checkers required to take a jump if one is available? What about a double or triple jump if that is available?

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In short -- for tournaments, yes.

I never played with forced jumps as a kid, but my father-in-law always plays with forced jumps. So I did a little digging around, and this is what I found:

The American Checker Federation seems to be the only sanctioned checkers organization I could find. According to the American Checker Federation, rule #5 says

If there is an opponent's checker or king on an adjacent square in the row ahead with an unoccupied square on the same diagonal line in the following row, that piece (checker or king) must be jumped.

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if you have more than one jump available, however, you are not required to take any in preference over another. – warren Jan 10 '11 at 3:31
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I think you only found one organisation because the rest of the world calls the game something else ;-) Here's a list of others: fmjd.org/?p=all – tttppp Jan 11 '11 at 9:05
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@tttppp - first football, then Clue, now this?? Seriously, though, thanks for pointing that out! – LittleBobbyTables Jan 11 '11 at 12:06
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There are many different Checkers variants, but I believe most of them use a forced capture rule.

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I've always had the same rules that this article does (Rule 9), if you can jump, you have to jump at least once, but you don't have to jump any more than that.

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I think you're mis-reading rule 9. If after the jump you choose there's still another jump available, you do have to take that additional jump - but you don't have to choose the multi-jump move in the first place in preference to some move that only offers a single jump. – Steven Stadnicki Mar 27 at 18:28

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