Hom Many Jumps Are Possible

[shanenin]

My son was messing around trying to see how many pieces could be jumped in checkers consecutively with a king. He was able to set the checkers up with two rows of 3 and one row of 2, for a grand total of 8 pieces that could be jumped. Are their any other configurations that would allow for more then a 8 checker jump?

[jcl]

I think nine is the upper bound but I'm not sure if you get into that configuration under the normal rules.

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Edit: Argh, I didn't see the king part. For kings I think the upper bound 12.

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I don't know what the actual maximum would be if you played a standard game. I have a hunch that it's less than 12 but I don't trust my hunches.

[shanenin]

kings can only jump diagonal(all directions), so I think your method of 9 would be the limit.

[jcl]

kings can only jump diagonal(all directions), so I think your method of 9 would be the limit.

Erk. Apparently checkers has different rules in every country on Earth