Here you can find a checkers game written in Java which my fellow student Thomas Geus and I created during a programming course at university.

You can download this game for free as an executable JAR file here. The user interface is in English, but it will switch to German automatically when run on a German system.

Note that you must have the Java JRE installed. Then you can start it by double-clicking the downloaded file.

You make a move by clicking a piece with the left mouse button, holding it down and dragging the piece to the desired square, then releasing the mouse button.

The blue squares always show the opponent's previous move.

The computer player in "easy" mode just chooses a random move. The "medium" and "difficult" ones use a backtracking algorithm which calculates the outcome of all possible moves to a certain depth in order to find the best move.