The classics are great, but sometimes you'd kill for a fresh coat of paint. Having mastered games like checkers and chess through sound strategy and flawless tactics, you might not have the drive and desire to continue. Well, here's your chance to love them again. Following are three classic games and three radically different ways to play them—all for free online. Be prepared to get your butt kicked all over again!
3 in One Checkers
Sure, you could play the same boring old game of checkers that you used to bust out on rainy winter afternoons—or you can load up 3 in One Checkers and spice it up a bit.
I'm actually winning this one.
Just as the title says, this Web game packs three different games of checkers. You can play a standard game against an easy, normal, good, or hard computer opponent (I beat the good one pretty handily); play Giveaway, in which the goal is to get rid of your pieces (you are forced to jump if you have the opportunity); or play Extreme, in which taking turns is for chumps (you have to play as fast as possible, and the more you win, the more the AI will level up to get even faster).
Giveaway is the toughest game—trying to reprogram your strategies to do the opposite of what you've been trained to do since childhood is a pain. The AI is also good about setting up the perfect positions to make you triple-jump the heck out of it.
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