##Features

• all essential styles are set inside javascript to make game more reusable
• you can also use this on a touch screen
• reusable: easy to change colors, size and appearance by modifying variables at the top
• xkcd font :-)

##Todo

• Have an animation loop: animate moving of peices
• Refactor to shorten methods into sub methods
• Score animations
• Animate sidebar to appear
• don't actually need row and col!
• implement computer:
• clean up logs and window.
• after anim working refactor moves to directions
• piece on first row isnt able to move?

###Done

• need to fix how determining whether queen did jump
• is_queen move many squares if not jumping
• Large refactor of globals to peices object
• Queen color
• fix queen can jump queen
• fix when queen jumps, if she can't play change
• implement game over
• handling computer when it has a second jump
• find queen jump moves to improve computer's gameplay

##Rules

• Checkers is played by two players. Each player begins the game with 12 colored discs. (Typically, one set of pieces is black and the other red.)
• The board consists of 64 squares, alternating between 32 dark and 32 light squares. It is positioned so that each player has a light square on the right side corner closest to him or her.
• Each player places his or her pieces on the 12 dark squares closest to him or her.
• Black moves first. Players then alternate moves.
• Moves are allowed only on the dark squares, so pieces always move diagonally. Single pieces are always limited to forward moves (toward the opponent).
• A piece making a non-capturing move (not involving a jump) may move only one square.
• A piece making a capturing move (a jump) leaps over one of the opponent's pieces, landing in a straight diagonal line on the other side. Only one piece may be captured in a single jump; however, multiple jumps are allowed on a single turn.
• When a piece is captured, it is removed from the board.
• If a player is able to make a capture, there is no option -- the jump must be made. If more than one capture is available, the player is free to choose whichever he or she prefers.
• When a piece reaches the furthest row from the player who controls that piece, it is crowned and becomes a king. One of the pieces which had been captured is placed on top of the king so that it is twice as high as a single piece.
• Kings are limited to moving diagonally, but may move both forward and backward. (Remember that single pieces, i.e. non-kings, are always limited to forward moves.)
• Kings may combine jumps in several directions -- forward and backward -- on the same turn. Single pieces may shift direction diagonally during a multiple capture turn, but must always jump forward (toward the opponent).
• A player wins the game when the opponent cannot make a move. In most cases, this is because all of the opponent's pieces have been captured, but it could also be because all of his pieces are blocked in.