1. checkers - Noun
2. checkers - Verb
A game, called also daughts, played on a checkerboard by two persons, each having twelve men (counters or checkers) which are moved diagonally. The game is ended when either of the players has lost all his men, or can not move them.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThese young guys are playing checkers. I'm out there playing chess. Kobe Bryant
Unfortunately, the current generation of mail programs do not have checkers to see if the sender knows what he is talking about. Andrew S. Tanenbaum
I'm like Bush, I see the world more like checkers than chess. Dennis Miller
It was illegal for black people and white people to play checkers together in Birmingham. And there were even black and white Bibles to swear to tell the truth on in many parts of the South. Isabel Wilkerson
If they think you're a hero, they're wrong. After you die, you don't get to be Beowulf or Perseus or Rama any more. Whole different set of rules. Chess, not checkers. Go, not chess. You understand? Neil Gaiman
It's not that the Democrats are playing checkers and the Republicans are playing chess. It's that the Republicans are playing chess and the Democrats are in the nurse's office because once again they glued their balls to their thighs. Jon Stewart