Concept information
Preferred term
checkers (game)
Definition
- Checkers is not a single game but a family. Checkers (or Draughts as it is known in England) may have been played in Ur, modern-day Iraq, as early as 3000 b.c.e. [Source: Encyclopedia of Play in Today's Society; Checkers and Variations of]
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/checkers_(game)
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