Checkers is a play by Henry Blossom. Adapted by Blossom from his 1896 novel Checkers: A Hard Luck Story, the play was performed on Broadway in 1903 and...

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

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 individually...

(NHL). The Checkers play their home games at Bojangles' Coliseum. The current organization is the third team by this name; it succeeded a Checkers franchise...

intelligence. He popularized the term "machine learning" in 1959. The Samuel Checkers-playing Program was among the world's first successful self-learning programs...

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

Dama)(Armenian: շաշկի)(Arabic: دامە)(Kurmanji: Dame) is a variant of draughts (checkers) played in Turkey, Greece, Egypt, Kuwait, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and several...

(also known as Shashki or Russian shashki) is a variant of draughts (checkers) played in Russia and some parts of the former USSR, as well as parts of Eastern...

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

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...

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

play, Checkers, which premiered at the American Theatre on Broadway in 1903. The play adaptation was the basis for two silent films entitled Checkers;...

the East Coast Hockey League, the Charlotte Checkers (named in honor of the original Checkers team that played at the Coliseum from 1956 to 1977), became...

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

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)...

record-setting victories in simultaneous checkers matches. In a January 1992 match that lasted over eight hours, he played 229 checkers games simultaneously. He won...

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

Blondie24 is an artificial intelligence checkers-playing computer program named after the screen name used by a team led by David B. Fogel. The purpose...

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...

The Charlotte Checkers were an American ice hockey team in Charlotte, North Carolina, and played in the ECHL (formerly the East Coast Hockey League). Following...

sometimes criticized as being opinion journalism. A review of US politics fact-checkers shows a mixed result of whether fact-checking is an effective way to reduce...

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

300 minutes, 2008) In The Picture (2012 Cinerama film) Checkers (2005 feature film) Checkers (TRT: 83 minutes, 2005 feature film) Attack of the 60 Foot...

numerous checkers through intentionally "poor" play. In combinatorial game theory, a misère game is one played according to the "misère play condition";...

15, 1912 – June 3, 1974) was a Soviet chess player, chess writer, and checkers player. Although he never attained the title of Grandmaster, he was a renowned...

player wins. Otherwise, play proceeds clockwise around the board. The mechanic of jumping pieces is reminiscent of draughts (checkers) but differs in that...

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

differences) is a game board of checkered pattern on which checkers (also known as English draughts) is played. Most commonly, it consists of 64 squares (8×8) of...

older adults often chose to engage in specific games such as dominoes, checkers, and bingo for entertainment. Another study indicated a common pattern...

boom, with early successes such as the Logic Theorist and Samuel's Checkers Playing Program, led to unrealistic expectations and promises and was followed...