A board game played by two players who move round pieces diagonally across a checkered board, trying to capture all of the opponent's pieces.
From the word 'check' plus the agent suffix '-er,' referring to the checkered pattern of the board. The game is called 'checkers' in America but 'draughts' in Britain, with roots going back to medieval Spain where it evolved from chess and alquerque.
Checkers is one of the few games a computer has 'solved'—in 2007, computers proved that with perfect play from both sides, the game always ends in a draw! This makes checkers simpler than chess, where computers still can't calculate every possible position.
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