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The object is to jump over and so capture the opponent's pieces
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checkers
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Draughts \Draughts\, n. pl. A game, now more commonly called checkers . See Checkers . Note: Polish draughts is sometimes played with 40 pieces on a board divided into 100 squares. --Am. Cyc.
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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 is Marsden's twelfth book.
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n. 1 (context board games US Canada in the singular English) A game for two players played on a chessboard; the players have 12 pieces each, and the object is to capture all the opponent’s pieces by jumping over them. Other European varieties have larger ...
Usage examples of checkers.
Some were fellow Checkers, others bound on important business of their own.
Other Checkers were heading out, speeding past her, intent on making good work of the Beta shift.
A Lilido or an unshielded Moke would soon overheat here, but Checkers were equipped for travel anywhere.
Perhaps, she thought, that was one reason why so many Checkers suffered from bad headaches.
Tamrul is more complex than he seems, and not as easily renewed in spirit and purpose as are Checkers and Mokes and such, but fear not.
One game which has come in for a good deal of attention is checkers, which seems a simple game, but is not.
The program uses partial analysis of certain features of the game, features such as the number of checkers each player has on the board, how advanced they are, et cetera.
The same sort of computer program that plays checkers can also be made to solve theorems on inequalities such as that pictured here, where one is asked to prove that the angle ACE is less than ABE.
If told to play checkers, it plays checkers, and it has but one goal, to win at checkers.
Our answer, as always, is never to be found in flatland, in the world of black checkers scurrying endlessly, meaninglessly, dimly, and disappearing finally into those dark shades of the night that are ever so fundamental, ever so insignificant.
A few meals were still going out, past the two 203 HOTEL middle-aged women checkers seated primly, like suspicious schoolmistresses, at elevated billing registers.
Other waiters, with loaded trays, moved quickly past the two austere women checkers at elevated billing registers.
Erica had lots of friends, a good school, a nearby park where she could run with her dog, Checkers, and plenty of beach to play on.
Why not leave Checkers at the house the way you always did when you went out?