jumping over opponent pieces. Checkers is developed from alquerque. The term "checkers" derives from the checkered board which the game is played on, whereas...

Look up checkers, chequers, or draughts in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Checkers, or draughts, is a board game. Checkers or chequers may also refer...

Chinese checkers (US) or Chinese chequers (UK) is a strategy board game of German origin that can be played by two, three, four, or six people, playing...

The Charlotte Checkers are a minor-league professional ice hockey team based in Charlotte, North Carolina. They are members of the Atlantic Division of...

Checkers And Rally's LLC is an American fast food double drive-thru chain franchise in the United States. The brand operates Checkers and Rally's restaurants...

Beer checkers (also known as shotglass checkers, shot glass checkers or beercheckers) is a two player drinking game. A variant of normal checkers (or draughts)...

Checkers is a FMCG retailer owned by Shoprite that operates in Southern Africa. Checkers currently has 37 Checkers Hypers and 202 Checkers supermarkets...

The Checkers speech or Fund speech was an address made on September 23, 1952, by Senator Richard Nixon (R-CA), six weeks before the 1952 United States...

Malaysian checkers or Singaporean checkers, is a variant of the board game of draughts played primarily in Malaysia and Singapore, especially among the elder...

English) or checkers (American English), also called straight checkers or simply draughts, is a form of the strategy board game checkers (or draughts)...

Canadian checkers (or Canadian draughts) is a variant of the strategy board game draughts. It is one of the largest draughts games, played on a 12×12 checkered...

US politics fact-checkers shows a mixed result of whether fact-checking is an effective way to reduce misconceptions, and whether the method is reliable...

The Indianapolis Checkers were a minor league professional ice hockey team from Indianapolis, Indiana. The Checkers' home arena was the Fairgrounds Coliseum...

American Pool Checkers, also called "American Pool", is a variant of draughts, mainly played in the mid-Atlantic and Southeastern United States and in...

but increasingly known as 'checkers' in the United States in recent decades, analogous to the other board game of checkers. The backgammon table pieces move...

pioneer in the field of computer gaming and artificial intelligence. He popularized the term "machine learning" in 1959. The Samuel Checkers-playing Program...

data structures inspired the Unix ispell program. The first spell checkers were widely available on mainframe computers in the late 1970s. A group of six...

The Checkers, is a restaurant with rooms in Montgomery, Powys, Wales. Historically, the building was used as a coaching inn dating from the 17th century...

The World Checkers/Draughts Championship is the tournament of English draughts (also known as "American checkers" or "straight checkers") which determines...

Charlotte Checkers is an American Hockey League team. Charlotte Checkers may also refer to: Charlotte Checkers (1956–1977), a defunct team in the Eastern...

The Red Checkers was the aerobatic/precision flying Team of the Royal New Zealand Air Force. The Checkers fly the Pacific Aerospace CT-4E Airtrainer....

microcomputer. The Mean Checkers Machine is a computer version of checkers with four levels of difficulty. J. Mishcon reviewed The Mean Checkers Machine in The Space...

invented "Checkers chess", a chess variant in which pieces cannot move backwards until they have reached the far side of the board (another game by the same...

Fact Checkers Unit (FCU) was originally a short film featured in the 2008 Sundance Film Festival starring Bill Murray, and was later turned into a branded...

that attempts to verify written text for grammatical correctness. Grammar checkers are most often implemented as a feature of a larger program, such as a...

variant of draughts (checkers) played in Turkey, Greece, Egypt, Kuwait, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and several other locations around the Mediterranean Sea and...

including the Twist dance style, with his 1960 hit cover of Hank Ballard & The Midnighters' R&B song "The Twist", and the pony dance style with the 1961 cover...

a computer program that plays checkers (also known as draughts). It was developed between the years 1989 to 2007 at the University of Alberta, by a team...

The Checkers were an American doo-wop quintet (later quartet) formed in 1952. The original members were John Carnegie (Tenor/Lead), Charlie White (Tenor/Lead)...

Armenian draughts, or Tama, is a variant of draughts (or checkers) played in Armenia. The rules are similar to Dama. Armenian draughts, however, allows...