two-move restriction

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rules in tournament play

  • Checkerboard, or draughtboard, set for play.
    In checkers

    In the two-move restriction, the first move of each side is chosen by lot from 47 playable combinations. The three-move, or American, restriction is an extension of the two-move to black’s second move, with about 300 prescribed openings. Eleven-man ballot is a less popular method, in which…

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