Checkers

AI Factory Limited

Contains ads

About this game

★ Top Developer (awarded 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2015) ★

Checkers from AI Factory provides the best place to play Checkers on Android, supporting classic opening play and game review. Slick polished graphics, multiple boards/pieces, full options and play/undo/review support makes this the way to play Checkers on Android. Tested against and easily beats all the top rival Checkers programs!

Featuring:

★ Reports the Checkers opening line you are using
★12 difficulty levels, from Beginner to Expert
★ 2 player hot-seat
★ 6 Checkers Piece Sets and 7 Boards!
★ User stats against each level
★ Undo & Hints
★ Designed for both Tablet and Phone
★ Supports both non-compulsory captures (popular rules) and compulsory captures (official US/English rules)

This free version is supported by 3rd party ads. Ads may use internet connectivity, and therefore subsequent data charges may apply. The photos/media/files permission is required to allow the game to save game data to external storage, and is sometimes used to cache ads.

Checkers (AKA Draughts) is one of the world's most popular board games. The earliest records of this game date back to the Egyptians 3500 years ago. In more recent times this has been most favoured by the USA and Scotland, the two countries to provide the most World champions in this game. In England and Scotland this classic board game is known as English Draughts. This implementation has been designed to provide a strong engine, even if only running on a mobile phone. Unlike many commercial Checkers programs, it correctly plays the common 2K v K, essential for quality checkers/draughts play.

Ratings and reviews

I get the need for ad revenue. I worked in digital ads and strongly believe it helps sustain the development ecosystem. But the way ads are implemented on this (and others) is deceptive. Ads often apear in a way that takes over your screen. Difficult or impossible to escape. Any attempt to click home or dismiss the app results in a visit to the advertisers landing page, usually promoting another app. That's not legit. If I were an advertiser, I'd seriously reconsider where I'm placing my spend.

The recent updates to the A1 games, when EVERY TIME now, you go to play one of their 'already installed' games OFFLINE, A1 has chosen to provide a 5 second delay while the screen is taken over by an advert for one of THEIR games (already installed). This is an unacceptible nuisance. If not for this new FEATURE, I would have rated their games with 5 stars. Now I am seriously thinking about removing their 'free' games.

Checkers is fun again! I had problems though with 2 player mode. My opponent was sitting right next to me but my moves wouldn't show up on his phone. (Update) Thanks to the fast reply from the developer, we fixed the problem. I still really like the game, but after playing many rounds, I think the developer could refine the difficulty levels a bit. There seems to be a huge jump in difficulty from level 2 to level 3. I've won 72% of games in level 2, but only 24% in level 3.

What's new

Further adjustments to ads for our own apps.