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Strategy board game
Checkers (North American English), also known as draughts (/drɑːfts, -æ-/; British English), is a group of strategy board games for two players which involve
Checkers
American Hockey League team in Charlotte, North Carolina
The Charlotte Checkers are a professional ice hockey team based in Charlotte, North Carolina. They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern
Charlotte_Checkers
American fast food company
Checkers Drive-In Restaurants, Inc. is an American fast food double drive-through chain franchise in the United States. The company operates Checkers
Checkers_and_Rally's
Abstract strategy board game
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
Chinese_checkers
Topics referred to by the same term
Look up checkers, chequers, or draughts in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Checkers, or draughts, is a board game. Checkers or Chequers may also refer
Checkers_(disambiguation)
Supermarket chain in Southern Africa
Checkers is a South African supermarket retailer owned by sister retailer and discount chain Shoprite. Founded in 1956 by Norman Hertz Herber, the chain
Checkers_(supermarket_chain)
Play by Henry Blossom
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
Checkers_(play)
Variant of draughts
American Pool Checkers, also called "American Pool", is a variant of draughts, mainly played in the mid-Atlantic and Southeastern United States and in
American_Pool_Checkers
1952 television address by Richard Nixon
The Checkers speech or Fund speech was an address made on September 23, 1952, by then-Senator Richard Nixon, six weeks before the 1952 United States presidential
Checkers_speech
Board game
(British English) or checkers (American English), also called straight checkers or chequers, is a form of the strategy board game checkers (or draughts). It
English_draughts
Drinking game
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)
Beer_checkers
Topics referred to by the same term
Charlotte Checkers is an American Hockey League team. Charlotte Checkers may also refer to: Charlotte Checkers (1956–1977), a defunct team in the Eastern
Charlotte Checkers (disambiguation)
Charlotte_Checkers_(disambiguation)
Variant of draughts on a 12x12 board
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
Canadian_checkers
American computer scientist (1901–1990)
intelligence. He coined the term machine learning in 1959. The Samuel Checkers-playing Program was among the world's first successful self-learning programs
Arthur Samuel (computer scientist)
Arthur_Samuel_(computer_scientist)
1952 puzzle video game
Checkers, also called Draughts, is a 1952 video game developed by British computer scientist Christopher Strachey. It is one of the first computer programs
Checkers_(video_game)
Malaysian checkers or Singaporean checkers is a variant of the board game of draughts played primarily in Malaysia and Singapore, especially among the
Malaysian/Singaporean checkers
Malaysian/Singaporean_checkers
Ice hockey team in Indianapolis, Indiana
The Indianapolis Checkers were a minor league professional ice hockey team from Indianapolis, Indiana. The Checkers' home arena was the Fairgrounds Coliseum
Indianapolis_Checkers
Process of verifying information in non-fictional text
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
Fact-checking
Computer program that plays checkers
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
Chinook_(computer_program)
2010 American TV series or program
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
Fact_Checkers_Unit
American singer (born 1941)
Chubby Checker (born Ernest Evans; October 3, 1941) is an American rock and roll singer and dancer. He is known for popularizing many dance styles, including
Chubby_Checker
Checkers tournament
The World Checkers/Draughts Championship is the tournament of English draughts (also known as "American checkers" or "straight checkers") which determines
World_Checkers_Championship
Novel by John Marsden
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
Checkers_(Marsden_novel)
Board game
"giveaway"), also known as Giveaway checkers, Suicide checkers, Anti-checkers or Losing draughts is a draughts (checkers) game based on the rules of Russian
Poddavki
Japanese strategy board game
Shogi (将棋, shōgi; English: /ˈʃoʊɡi/, Japanese: [ɕo̞ːɡʲi]), also known as Japanese chess, is an abstract strategy board game for two players. It is one
Shogi
1980 video game
Video Checkers is a video game developed and published by Atari, Inc. in 1980 for the Atari VCS, renamed to Atari 2600. Video Checkers is based on the
Video_Checkers
Military unit
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.
Red_Checkers
Japanese musician
lead singer of The Checkers born in Kurume. His younger brother is Naoyuki Fujii, a musician and former sax player for The Checkers. His eldest son is
Fumiya_Fujii
1919 silent film directed by Richard Stanton
Checkers is a 1919 American silent melodrama film, directed by Richard Stanton. There are no known archival holdings of the film, so it is presumably a
Checkers_(1919_film)
Software to help correct spelling errors
approve or reject replacements and modify the program's operation. Spell checkers can use approximate string matching algorithms such as Levenshtein distance
Spell_checker
Computer program that verifies written text for grammatical correctness
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
Grammar_checker
American doo-wop music group
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)
The_Checkers_(American_band)
Board game variant from Tanzania
(known as Drafti in Swahili) is a variant of the board game draughts (checkers) played in Tanzania. The game is similar to Czech draughts; however, unlike
Tanzanian_draughts
Variant of draughts played in the Mediterranean and Middle East
տամա, Arabic: دامە, Kurmanji Kurdish: dame) is a variant of draughts (checkers) played in Turkey, Greece, Egypt, Kuwait, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and several
Turkish_draughts
South African draughts player (born 1971)
December 1971) is a player of English draughts (also known as American checkers) from South Africa. He holds the title of grandmaster, and is the former
Lubabalo_Kondlo
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1997)
(AHL) affiliate, the Charlotte Checkers, for the remainder of the season. After playing in two games for the Checkers, Roy returned to his hometown of
Nicolas_Roy
The 2013–14 Charlotte Checkers season is the franchise's fourth season in the American Hockey League, which began on October 4, 2013. Charlotte remained
2013–14 Charlotte Checkers season
2013–14_Charlotte_Checkers_season
1980 video game
microcomputer. The Mean Checkers Machine is a computer version of checkers with four difficulty levels. J. Mishcon reviewed The Mean Checkers Machine in The Space
The_Mean_Checkers_Machine
1937 film by H. Bruce Humberstone
Checkers is a 1937 American drama film directed by H. Bruce Humberstone and written by Robert Chapin, Karen DeWolf, Frank Fenton and Lynn Root. The film
Checkers_(1937_film)
Strategy board game
International draughts (also called international checkers or Polish draughts) is a strategy board game for two players, one of the variants of draughts
International_draughts
1896 novel by Henry Blossom
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
Checkers:_A_Hard_Luck_Story
Restaurant in Montgomery, UK
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_Checkers_(restaurant)
Chess term; a check delivered by two pieces simultaneously
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
Double_check
Ice hockey team in Charlotte, North Carolina
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
Charlotte Checkers (1993–2010)
Charlotte_Checkers_(1993–2010)
Alexander Schwarzman Alexei Chizhov Alfred Dussaut Alfred Jordan – A World Checkers/Draughts Champion Alfred Molimard Amangul Durdyyeva Anatoli Gantvarg Andrej
List_of_draughts_players
American minor league professional ice hockey team (1956–1977)
The Charlotte Checkers were a minor league professional ice hockey team based in Charlotte, North Carolina. The team began as the Baltimore Clippers in
Charlotte Checkers (1956–1977)
Charlotte_Checkers_(1956–1977)
Canadian ice hockey player
of the ECHL. He formerly served as an assistant coach for the Charlotte Checkers of the American Hockey League (AHL). Staal moved into coaching after retiring
Jared_Staal
Motorsport championship held worldwide
Mind sports Backgammon Bridge Chess open women team Draughts men women checkers draughts-64 draughts-64 women Go amateurs Puzzles Renju Scrabble Sudoku
Formula_One
Board game
draughts (also known as Shashki or Russian shashki) is a variant of draughts (checkers) played in Russia and most parts of the former USSR, as well as parts of
Russian_draughts
Palestinian fact-checking organization
founded in 2015 by Baker Mohammad Abdulhaq. It is a member of the Arab Fact-Checkers Network (AFCN). Tahaqaq was created in 2015 by Baker Mohammad Abdulhaq
Tahaqaq
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
Blondie24
Armenian draughts, or Tama, is a variant of draughts (or checkers) played in Armenia. The rules are similar to Dama. Armenian draughts, however, allows
Armenian_draughts
Ice hockey team in Columbus, Ohio
The Columbus Checkers were a minor league professional ice hockey team in the International Hockey League from 1966 to 1970, and the first professional
Columbus_Checkers
Board with an alternating square pattern on which games are played
chequerboard (British English) is a game board of checkered pattern on which checkers (also known as English draughts) is played. Most commonly, it consists
Checkerboard
Social media platform owned by Meta
content in feed and Stories that has been rated false by third-party fact-checkers." In June 2021, Instagram launched a native affiliate marketing tool creators
American stage and film actor
acclaim for his portrayal of the title role in Henry Blossom's 1903 play Checkers. He first performed the role in the play's premiere at the National Theatre
Thomas_W._Ross
Football tournament
Mind sports Backgammon Bridge Chess open women team Draughts men women checkers draughts-64 draughts-64 women Go amateurs Puzzles Renju Scrabble Sudoku
FIFA_World_Cup
2015 film
How to Win at Checkers (Every Time) (Thai title: พี่ชาย My Hero) is a 2015 internationally co-produced drama film directed by Josh Kim. It was screened
How to Win at Checkers (Every Time)
How_to_Win_at_Checkers_(Every_Time)
President of the United States (2017–2021; since 2025)
politics. His false and misleading statements were documented by fact-checkers, including at The Washington Post, which tallied 30,573 false or misleading
Donald_Trump
Soviet chess player (1912–1974)
1974) was a Soviet chess player, chess writer, International Master and checkers player. Although he never attained the title of Grandmaster, he was a renowned
Rashid_Nezhmetdinov
South African supermarket chain
and Transpharm - furniture chain House & Home, the mid-to-high income Checkers chain, South Africa's largest ticketing provider, Computicket, numerous
Shoprite_Holdings
Video-focused social media platform
opinion about the war while obscuring their origins and that its fact checkers had removed 41,191 videos for violating its misinformation policies. In
TikTok
Brand of corn puff snack food
Cheetos (formerly styled as Chee-tos) is a crunchy corn-cheese puff snack brand made by Frito-Lay, a subsidiary of PepsiCo. Fritos creator Charles Elmer
Cheetos
Video game series
trivia game with randomized questions. King Graham's Board Game Challenge: Checkers & Backgammon: A board game collection starring King Graham. Quest for Daventry
King's_Quest
American actor (born 1950)
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
Stanley_Livingston
South African businessman
Shoprite into Checkers' holding company as Shoprite Checkers Group. It took Basson nine months to revive Checkers' fortunes. Checkers "had different
Whitey_Basson
Donald Trump has made tens of thousands of false or misleading claims. Fact-checkers at The Washington Post documented 30,573 false or misleading claims during
False or misleading statements by Donald Trump
False_or_misleading_statements_by_Donald_Trump
Ice hockey league in North America
Rivermen identity for their first AHL season of 2005–06. The Charlotte Checkers were the fourth, yielding to a franchise that retained the Albany River
ECHL
Family of Canadian ice hockey players
Charlotte Checkers. However, after 12 games, he was sent to the ECHL to play for the Florida Everblades but was later recalled. He returned to the Checkers for
Staal_brothers
code of ethics for fact-checking organizations. The IFCN reviews fact-checkers for compliance with its code, and issues a certification to publishers
List of fact-checking websites
List_of_fact-checking_websites
Philosophy shogi checkers (哲学飛将碁) is a board game similar to English draughts, invented by Inoue Enryō, Japanese philosopher, and described by his student
Philosophy_shogi_checkers
American ice hockey player (born 1999)
plus/minus rating. Brind'Amour made his professional debut for the Charlotte Checkers of the American Hockey League (AHL) during the 2023–24 AHL season, appearing
Skyler_Brind'Amour
American conservative political commentator (born 1969)
citizens and characterized his series as "rock-solid factually". Fact-checkers found the series contained numerous falsehoods and conspiracy theories
Tucker_Carlson
American politician (born 1954)
the specialized knowledge of Encyclopedia Brittanica's army of paid fact checkers? How do we prove anything? What is the truth? "Backbone Cabinet". Backbone
Robert_F._Kennedy_Jr.
South African retail company
Western Cape and is a subsidiary of major South African retail corporation Checkers. As of 2024, Petshop Science operates 173 locations across 8 of the country's
Petshop_Science
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1998)
American Hockey League (AHL) affiliate, the Charlotte Checkers, in 2018. After helping the Checkers win the Calder Cup in 2019, he made his NHL debut with
Morgan_Geekie
Draughts game on a hexagonal board
The game is a literal adaptation of the game international draughts (checkers or Dame) to a hexagonal gameboard. The Hexdame board is a regular hexagon
Hexdame
Computer science field
the example properties are paraphrased in natural language here. Model-checkers require them to be expressed in some formal logic, like LTL. Lam K., William
Model_checking
American checkers player (1927–1995)
3, 1995) was an American mathematician and checkers player. He is widely considered the greatest checkers player ever. Tinsley was world champion from
Marion_Tinsley
Methods for describing backgammon moves and/or positions
Paul Magriel in the 1970s. The common way of describing the movement of checkers involves numbering the points around the board from 24 to 1 as depicted
Backgammon_notation
1980 video game
Checkers is a 1980 video game adaptation of the board game checkers. It was designed by Alan Miller and was one of the first video game released by Activision
Checkers_(1980_video_game)
American ice hockey player and coach
as a coach with the Curry Colonels, South Carolina Stingrays, Charlotte Checkers and Chicago Wolves. Warsofsky was born in Marshfield, Massachusetts, to
Ryan_Warsofsky
President of the United States from 1969 to 1974
address the nation on September 23, 1952. The address, later named the Checkers speech, was heard by about 60 million Americans, which represented the
Richard_Nixon
Type of machine learning model
including ChatGPT 3.5 and 4.0, Bard, and Bing AI against independent fact-checkers such as PolitiFact and Snopes. The results demonstrated moderate proficiency
Large_language_model
American Hockey League postseason tournament
Abbotsford Canucks won their first Calder Cup after defeating the Charlotte Checkers in six games. It is the first time in history that an AHL affiliate of
2025_Calder_Cup_playoffs
said this figure was calculated by "independent Treasury officials". Fact checkers disputed the sum, stating it was based on assumptions made by political
2024 United Kingdom general election
2024_United_Kingdom_general_election
Abstract board game
Zon in 1986. It belongs to the "stacking" category of games, or column checkers, along with Bashni and Lasca. The name comes from the motto of the Dutch
Emergo_(board_game)
American fast food restaurant chain
Hamburgers A&W Arctic Circle Back Yard Big Boy BurgerFi Burger King Carl's Jr. Checkers/Rally's Cook Out Culver's Fatburger Five Guys Freddy's Fuddruckers Habit
McDonald's
American conservative website and media company
traditional news organizations while adding a conservative slant. Fact checkers have said that some stories shared by the Daily Wire are unverified, and
The_Daily_Wire
Multi-purpose indoor arena in Charlotte, North Carolina, US
franchise in 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)
Bojangles_Coliseum
Sports organization of Armenia
The Checkers Federation of Armenia (Armenian: Հայաստանի շաշկի ֆեդերացիա), also known as the Armenian Draughts Federation, is the regulating body of checkers
Checkers Federation of Armenia
Checkers_Federation_of_Armenia
American checkers player (1934–2024)
(December 11, 1934 – August 12, 2024) was an American Mississippi state checkers (draughts) champion and Christian minister. He founded the International
Charles Walker (checkers player)
Charles_Walker_(checkers_player)
Computer program that plays checkers
KingsRow is a strong checkers and draughts engine. It was released by Ed Gilbert in 2000. The checkers engine can be used with the CheckerBoard GUI. It
KingsRow
companies or individuals and contain content that has been described by fact-checkers, journalists or researchers as fake news. Even though many satirical sources
List of satirical fake news websites
List_of_satirical_fake_news_websites
Board game
Cheskers is a variant of checkers and chess invented by Solomon Golomb in 1948. Pawns move as pieces in checkers: they move, without taking, one square
Cheskers
Board game invented by Emanuel Lasker
checkers) variant, invented by the second World Chess Champion Emanuel Lasker (1868–1941). Lasca is derived from English draughts (American checkers)
Lasca
Former museum in Mississippi, United States
collection of checkers memorabilia. The hall of fame, which had been home to a statue of checkers-great Marion Tinsley, contained a checkers book library
International Checker Hall of Fame
International_Checker_Hall_of_Fame
Board game
Brazilian draughts (or Brazilian Checkers) is a variant of the strategy board game draughts. Brazilian draughts follows the same rules and conventions
Brazilian_draughts
Board game
according to his tactical requirements. International draughts English draughts Pool checkers Russian checkers Czech draughts Turkish draughts Draughts v t e
Italian_draughts
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1994)
professional ice hockey defenceman who is currently playing with the Charlotte Checkers in the American Hockey League (AHL). He was selected in the fourth round
Trevor_Carrick
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Boy/Male
Hindu
Lord Shiva
Boy/Male
Arabic Muslim
Servant of the merciful.
Boy/Male
Biblical
Beseeching, merciful.
Boy/Male
Arabic, Muslim
Servant of the Gentle / Kind One (Allah)
Female
Italian
Medieval Italian unisex name derived from the word fiore, FIORE means "flower."
Boy/Male
Hindu
Calm
Male
English
Variant spelling of English Philander, FILANDER means "with love for people."
Boy/Male
Slavic
Universal ruler.
Girl/Female
Norse American English German
Beautiful.
Girl/Female
Tamil
Lock of curly hair, A girl with a Lovely hair, Beauty
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n.
A board with sixty-four squares of alternate color, used for playing checkers or draughts.
v. t.
In games of chance and skill: To defeat (an opponent) (as in cards) so that he fails to gain a point, or (in checkers) to get a king.
n.
Work consisting of or showing checkers varied alternately as to colors or materials.
n. pl.
A game, now more commonly called checkers. See Checkers.
n.
A move, as at chess or checkers.
v. t.
To form into squares or checkers; to lay with checkered work.
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.
v. t.
A piece in the game of draughts or checkers.