Amanda Simpson

Expository essay:

Checkers,

Ok just to start off the game checker’s is not for anyone if you can’t have patience then this game is not for you. To start you off I will tell you how the game is played and how you can beat the pretty girl/ guy sitting across form you. In my case it’s a pretty girl. Jane Gallagher to be exact. Checkers is a game only meant for two people, (or two players). Each of the players will select a color, either black or red. Black is the color of smoke and red is the color of fire, so red would come before black. There are twelve playing pieces to a color. On the board there are colors usually black and red square boxes, in theses boxes they players must put their pieces. The players must also put the game pieces n the same colored square. Each of the players would move their pieces in turn. To get the others pieces off the board, you must jump that piece. To jump an opponent players piece, the piece that is jumping must pass over the piece of the opponents and land in a diagonal square opposite of the opponent’s piece. All moves are made in a diagonal motion and the pieces must end up in the same colored square as started from. Double or triple jumps may also be made as long as that number of the same colored squares are vacant. When one players checker piece reaches the others on the other side then that checker becomes a "King". This king can move forward or backward or diagonal, but it too must stay on the same colored squares. The way you know that you have a king, is by the number of checker pieces it has on it. The king piece will have two of the same colored checkers stacked onto it. I know this may be a lot of rules but once you get the hang of playing you don’t even think about the rules they come as a second nature to you. Sitting on Jane’s porch playing this intellectual game was quit fun, until her no good for nothing father came out their asking her where the cigarettes were. Oh that man, I swear. I don’t know if he ever did anything with Jane but when he comes around I can sense this tension in her.