What are the rules of checkers? The rules of checkers are as follows: to be able to move a portion, you need to leap over an opponent's piece that is on the same color square as your piece. In case you can't create a jump, you are able to go your piece onward 1 space. It doesn't make much sense, does it? A game of chess is earned by a series of movements, not by the placing of a single piece...