Need a quick form of entertainment this summer? Why not pull out a checkerboard while you're bored? The beloved 8x8 board is home to both checkers and chess and is a staple in many living rooms, parks ...

Keep the kids (and adults!) entertained on-the-go with this traveling Chinese checkers game. But this isn't an ordinary board game—it's one you can make in a snap and take on the go. This travel ...

King me, please… and super-size me too! This classic game just became the next big thing. If you’d like to pump up the volume on your next outdoor get-together, then super-sized checkers might be just ...

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, despite ...

Northwestern Master of Science in Robotics (MSR) student Maurice Rahme talks about what he learned teaching a Baxter robot to play checkers. Embedded Systems in Robotics is one of three required ...

Hooray! Today's Game of the Day is good ol' Checkers. You know the rules: you can only move diagonally and you can't move backwards. If you're in position to jump over an opponent's piece, you have to ...

After 13 years of brute-force computer analysis examining all 500 billion billion possible board positions, researchers announced Thursday that they had solved the centuries-old game of checkers. The ...