Checkers (American English), also known as draughts (/drɑːfts, dræfts/; British English), is a group of strategy board games for two players which involve...
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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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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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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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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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Fact-checking (redirect from Fact checkers)
remains the largest market for fact-checking. One 2016 study finds that fact-checkers PolitiFact, FactCheck.org, and The Washington Post's Fact Checker overwhelmingly...
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Checkers is a supermarket retailer owned by Shoprite that operates in Southern Africa. By 2024, Checkers had 293 Checkers and 38 Checkers Hyper operating...
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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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Charlotte Checkers is an American Hockey League team. Charlotte Checkers may also refer to: Charlotte Checkers (1956–1977), a defunct team in the Eastern...
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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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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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Malaysian checkers or Singaporean checkers, is a variant of the board game of draughts played primarily in Malaysia and Singapore, especially among the...
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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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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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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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Spell checker (redirect from Spell checkers)
approve or reject replacements and modify the program's operation. Spell checkers can use approximate string matching algorithms such as Levenshtein distance...
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traditionally as men (short for "tablemen"), but increasingly known as "checkers" in the United States in recent decades.[citation needed] The backgammon...
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Arthur Samuel (computer scientist) (redirect from Samuel Checkers-playing Program)
intelligence. He popularized the term "machine learning" in 1959. The Samuel Checkers-playing Program was among the world's first successful self-learning programs...
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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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Chubby Checker (redirect from Chubby Checkers)
Chubby Checker (born Ernest Evans; October 3, 1941) is an American singer and dancer. He is widely known for popularizing many dance styles, including...
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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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Chinook (computer program) (redirect from Chinook Checkers Program)
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...
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"giveaway"), also known as Giveaway checkers, Suicide checkers, Anti-checkers or Losing draughts is a draughts (checkers) game based on the rules of Russian...
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Stadium Checkers (also known as Roller Bowl) is a tabletop race game for 2 to 4 players ages 8 to adult. The object of the game is to be the first to move...
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Turkish draughts (redirect from Turkish Checkers)
Dama)(Armenian: շաշկի)(Arabic: دامە)(Kurmanji: Dame) is a variant of draughts (checkers) played in Turkey, Greece, Egypt, Kuwait, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Kurdistan...
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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 Checkers were an American doo-wop quintet (later quartet) formed in 1952. The original members were John Carnegie (Tenor/Lead), Charlie White (Tenor/Lead)...
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Double check (redirect from Double-checkers)
In chess and other related games, a double check is a check delivered by two pieces simultaneously. In chess notation, it is almost always represented...
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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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Checkers is a young adult novel by Australian author John Marsden. It was published in 1996 and 1998 by Houghton Mifflin and in 2000 by Laurel Leaf. It...
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