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What is the difference between checkers and chess?

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As nouns the difference between checkers and chess

is that checkers is 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 boards and more playing pieces while chess is a board game for two players with each beginning with sixteen chess pieces moving according to fixed rules across a chessboard with the objective to checkmate the opposing king.

As a verb checkers

is third-person singular of checker.

checkers

English

(wikipedia checkers)

Etymology

From (etyl) .

Noun

(-)
  • (board games, US, Canada, in the singular) 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 boards and more playing pieces.
  • English plurals
  • (board games, US, Canada, in the plural) the playing pieces in the game of checkers.

    • Synonyms

    * draughts (UK)

    Verb

    (head)
  • (checker)

    • Anagrams

    *

    chess

    English

    (wikipedia chess)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • A board game for two players with each beginning with sixteen chess pieces moving according to fixed rules across a chessboard with the objective to checkmate the opposing king.
    • Related terms
    * chessboard * chess clock * chessman * chess piece * chess set * computer chess
    See also
    (wikibooks chess) * * checkers * draughts * scacchic

    Etymology 2

    Origin uncertain; perhaps linked to Etymology 1, above, from the sense of being arranged in rows or lines.

    Noun

    (chesses)
  • A type of grass, generally considered a weed.
  • * 2007 , Michael Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road , Sceptre 2008, p. 59:
    • Hobbled, loudly gourmandizing the dry chess grass, they were guarded by a pair of dismounted soldiers in long, dusty coats [...].

    Etymology 3

    Compare (etyl) .

    Noun

    (es)
  • (military, chiefly, in the plural) One of the platforms, consisting of two or more planks dowelled together, for the flooring of a temporary military bridge.
    • (Wilhelm)
  • * Farrow
    • Each chess consists of three planks.
    (Webster 1913)