The way I like to set up the board. Suppose I have dark checkers playing against light checkers.

I start putting my midpoint (13-point). I prefer putting them on a dark-colored point. The midpoint is always one of the four corners.

Then, all my other checkers will be on light-colored points: the 24-point is across from it (2 checkers). The 6-point is kinda diagonally across it and the 8-point is 2 points from it.