Long-time world checkers champion Marion Tinsley consistently bested all comers, losing only nine games in the 40 years following his 1954 crowning. He lost his world championship title to a computer ...

Checkers champions, meet your match. An invincible checkers-playing program named Chinook has solved a game whose origins date back several millennia, scientists reported Thursday on the journal ...

Willoughby Public Library will be hosting a program March 18 on how to win at checkers with Richard Beckwith, grandmaster and president of the World Checkers Draughts Federation. The program will take ...

REVIEW PROMOTION When it comes to timeless games that are simple to pick up and play for casual and strategic players alike Draughts, or Checkers, has to be near the top of the list. GamoVation has ...

WADA called the organizers of the championship demanding they remove the flag immediately, threatening further sanctions, organizers told Reuters. That prompted one official to rush to the table in ...

WASHINGTON, July 19 (Reuters) - The perfect game of checkers ends as a draw, Canadian computer scientists reported on Thursday. The team at the University of Alberta said they had "solved" checkers, ...

Kampala — THERE is not one story on the origins of the board game we know as draughts. According to one such story, it had its origins as checkers, which in Spanish is called damas, a term that also ...

ST JAMES, Jamaica — The Jamaica Draughts Association, in collaboration with the Montego Bay Warriors Draughts Club, recently hosted a draughts and pool checkers open tournament at Jarrett Park in ...