When can you jump backwards when playing checkers??

Question

When can you jump backwards when playing checkers??

Answer 1

only when you KING ME BABY!!!!!

Answer 2

When you have made it across the board and are "kinged" then you can jump "backwards"

Answer 3

when you are king

Answer 4

when the peice getts kinged. gets to the other side

Answer 5

When you've been 'kinged'.

Answer 6

When you reach the other side of the board, the other player has to "king" you; (put a piece on top of your player.)  Then you can go backward.

Answer 7

When you ar "kinged" you have made it across the board.

Answer 8

After you have made it to the other side of the board and get KINGED .Other wise stuck aginst the far wall and the piece would no longer be of use.

Answer 9

once you get kinged (reach the other end)

Answer 10

When one of your  pieces makes to the other players side of the board, your piece is kinged. It is only a king piece that can jump backwards.

Answer 11

if you get kinged which is if you get to the other side of the board  then you can move any direction

Answer 12

When you are king.

Answer 13

only after you have succesfully reach the other side with one of your pieces, then it gets "kinged" then that piece can move either direction

Answer 14

When you are kinged you can jump forwards and backwards.

Answer 15

When one of your checkers has reached one of the complete opposite spaces in the last row of the board, and your checker is "kinged".  At that point it can move forward and backward.

Answer 16

When you're KINGED!

Answer 17

I'm pretty sure you can, I haven't played checkers in a while though.

Answer 18

A king can move in either direction, and jump in either direction.

Answer 19

The only time you can move backwards is when you have been kinged. When kinged you still can only move diagonally not vertical of horizontal. Before you have been kinged you can only move forward diagonally.