Mississippi residents can expect to pay an average hourly rate of $18 for home care throughout the state. Regardless of your geographic location within the state, the hourly average is fairly consistent. As with the cost of assisted living, the Gulfport-Biloxi area offers the most affordable hourly rate at $16.50.
Each player begins the game with 12 pieces, or checkers, placed in the three rows closest to him or her. The object of the game is to capture all of your opponentâs checkers or position your pieces so that your opponent has no available moves. Movement. Basic movement is to move a checker one space diagonally forward.
I American Checkers, also known as English draughts, is played on the dark squares only of a standard checkerboard of 64 alternating dark and light squares(eight rows, eight columns), by two opponents having 12 Checkers each of contrasting colors, normally referred to as black and white.