This comes with 30 checkers pieces, Staunton chess pieces, dice and instructions, in case you aren’t sure how to play any of the games. The board is foldable, so it’ll fit inside the box easily.

Checker pieces, in contrast, move across the playing board in a somewhat simpler and more linear fashion. Most checker players are only thinking 2-3 steps beyond their next move.

Though both games are played on an 8-by-8-square grid, the 12 red and 12 black checker pieces all move in the same way and are restricted to half the squares. Chess is exponentially more complicated.

For Richard Beckwith, it’s more than the feel of checker pieces beneath his fingertips or their smooth forward movement on a flat board. It’s the beauty of the game, the depth in its ...

As in all checkers variants, Checkers is played by two people, on opposite sides of a checkers playing board, alternating moves. One player has black colored checkers pieces, and the other has ...

You know how to play checkers. But you don`t know how to play checkers against him. No one has beaten the checker champion in a match for 30 years. Even computer programmers don`t take him on ...