What (who) is checkers - definition

BOARD GAME

Draughts; American checkers; Draughts (game); ⛀; ⛁; ⛂; ⛃; Checkers (game); Checkers (draughts)

checkers

n. pl.

Draughts.

checkers

1) to play checkers

2) Chinese checkers

Checkers

·v A game, called also daughts, played on a checkerboard by two persons, each having twelve men (counters or checkers) which are moved diagonally. The game is ended when either of the players has lost all his men, or can not move them.

Wikipedia

Checkers

Checkers (American English), also known as draughts (; British English), is a group of strategy board games for two players which involve diagonal moves of uniform game pieces and mandatory captures by jumping over opponent pieces. Checkers is developed from alquerque. The term "checkers" derives from the checkered board which the game is played on, whereas "draughts" derives from the verb "to draw" or "to move".

The most popular forms of checkers in Anglophone countries are American checkers (also called English draughts), which is played on an 8×8 checkerboard; Russian draughts, Turkish draughts both on an 8x8 board, and International draughts, played on a 10×10 board – the latter is widely played in many countries worldwide. There are many other variants played on 8×8 boards. Canadian checkers and Singaporean/Malaysian checkers (also locally known as dum) are played on a 12×12 board.

American checkers was weakly solved in 2007 by a team of Canadian computer scientists led by Jonathan Schaeffer. From the standard starting position, perfect play by each side would result in a draw.

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Pronunciation examples for checkers

1. checkers.

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2. fact-checkers.

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3. of fact checkers.

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4. that weren't checkers or chess?

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5. I don't play checkers anymore.

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Examples of use of checkers

1. Then the team looked at every possible position with two checkers, on up to 10 checkers on the board.

2. Now please don‘t think I‘m blaming the security checkers themselves.

3. The checkers, however, cannot pick up wrong word choices.

4. In 1'52 Richard Nixon, while staying at the Ambassador,penned his career–saving Checkers speech, insisting that the only gift he had received from supporters was his cocker spaniel Checkers.

5. But it also seemed to have echoes of Richard Nixon‘s Checkers speech.