Traditional Checkers Game

Right now you can play the traditional version of checkers, which was the very first, which was still the basis of the games of draughts. That's why this game is called "Traditional Checkers". The rules are based on the tradition! There are many types of draughts nowadays. Russian draughts for example is a newer variant of the game of draughts where kingpin has stronger opportunities - traditional draughts implies that kingpins can move only to one adjacent cell. So the question "Why should the king move then, since its powers are the same as those of traditional draughts? The fact that in traditional draughts queen can walk and hit back the opponent's checkers, which an ordinary checker just can not do!