# How many Kings can you Achieve?

In a standard American game of checkers what's the maximum amount of kings a player can get, and what is the move sequence?

Keeping in mind the force capture rule

• Dear god it's spread from chess to checkers. Not a puzzle imo – Joe Nov 8 '14 at 19:39
• Puzzle: "a game, toy, or problem designed to test ingenuity or knowledge." Would you say this is not a problem, and that it does not test a solvers knowledge? – warspyking Nov 8 '14 at 20:05
• @warspyking: Maybe you should specify that there’s a force capture rule in your question. – Ry- Nov 9 '14 at 17:12
• @minitech I actually got an answer on another site now! Yay. Also force capture rule is a standard rule of checkers. I shouldn't have to. – warspyking Nov 9 '14 at 19:39
• is it just one side? or total kings on board? – d'alar'cop Nov 9 '14 at 22:16

The following game produces $12$ kings on the black side. I have suffixed the usual move with $K$ when a king is made:
$$\begin {array} {l l} 10-14&21-17\\ 14\text { x }21&22-17 \\9-13&25-22\\7-10&30-25\\ 21\text { x }30K&17-14\\10\text { x }17&29-25\\ 30\text { x }21&24-20\\21-25&20-16\\ 11\text { x }20&22-18\\25-29&18-15\\ 17-21&15-10\\6\text { x }15&26-22\\ 21-25&22-18\\15\text { x }22&23-19\\ 5-9&19-15\\1-5&31-26\\ 22\text { x }31K&27-23\\25-30K&15-10\\ 29-25&28-24\\20\text { x }2&32-28\\ 27-32K&10-6\\31-26&28-24\\ 26\text { x }19\text { x }28&6-1K \end {array}$$ and it seems clear that Black can let Red come to him, capture all the men, and king them all. Red has space to shuffle his king when needed. It wasn't hard to find.