The game is played by 2 players, each of them in the beginning of the game has 12 checkers (each player set pieces of his color standard white and black). The game is played on a standard chess Board (8x8) is rotated so that would be before the player playing white in the lower left corner of the cell (field) was black. In the game only uses 32 field (black).
In the initial position checkers take on the 3 horizontal lines on each side.