jumping over opponent pieces. Checkers is developed from alquerque. The term "checkers" derives from the checkered board which the game is played on, whereas...
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The Charlotte Checkers are a minor-league professional ice hockey team based in Charlotte, North Carolina. They are members of the Atlantic Division of...
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Look up checkers, chequers, or draughts in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Checkers, or draughts, is a board game. Checkers or chequers may also refer...
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Checkers And Rally's LLC is an American fast food double drive-through chain franchise in the United States. The brand operates Checkers and Rally's restaurants...
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Chinese checkers (US) or Chinese chequers (UK), known as Sternhalma in German, is a strategy board game of German origin that can be played by two, three...
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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...
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Checkers is a FMCG retailer owned by Shoprite that operates in Southern Africa. Checkers currently has 37 Checkers Hypers and 202 Checkers supermarkets...
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English draughts (redirect from Straight checkers)
English) or checkers (American English), also called straight checkers or simply draughts, is a form of the strategy board game checkers (or draughts)...
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American Pool Checkers, also called "American Pool", is a variant of draughts, mainly played in the mid-Atlantic and Southeastern United States and in...
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Malaysian checkers or Singaporean checkers, is a variant of the board game of draughts played primarily in Malaysia and Singapore, especially among the elder...
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Fact-checking (redirect from Fact checkers)
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...
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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...
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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)...
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Russian draughts (redirect from Russian checkers)
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 Europe and...
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Arthur Samuel (computer scientist) (redirect from Samuel Checkers-playing Program)
pioneer in the field of computer gaming and artificial intelligence. He popularized the term "machine learning" in 1959. The Samuel Checkers-playing Program...
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Spell checker (redirect from Spell checkers)
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...
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Backgammon (redirect from The cruellest game)
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...
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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...
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Checkers: A Hard Luck Story is a novel by Henry Blossom. First published in 1896, the novel is set during the World's Columbian Exposition and follows...
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Turkish draughts (redirect from Turkish Checkers)
variant of draughts (checkers) played in Turkey, Greece, Egypt, Kuwait, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and several other locations around the Mediterranean Sea and...
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The World Checkers/Draughts Championship is the tournament of English draughts (also known as "American checkers" or "straight checkers") which determines...
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The Indianapolis Checkers were a minor league professional ice hockey team from Indianapolis, Indiana. The Checkers' home arena was the Fairgrounds Coliseum...
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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....
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Grammar checker (redirect from Grammar checkers)
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...
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International draughts (redirect from International checkers)
called international checkers or Polish draughts) is a strategy board game for two players, one of the variants of draughts. The gameboard comprises 10×10...
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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...
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Brazilian draughts (redirect from Brazilian checkers)
Checkers) is a variant of the strategy board game draughts. Brazilian checkers follows the same rules and conventions as international draughts, the only...
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Chubby Checker (redirect from Chubby Checkers)
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...
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Hans Multhopp (redirect from Checkers chess)
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...
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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...
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