Checkers And Chess

Checkers is a simple game for two persons, each having twelve pieces or men that are moved in a prescribed fashion on a board of sixty-four squares. The object of the game is to capture all of your opponent's men. Most of us are familiar with the game, which is known in England as draughts, and have played it as children.

Because of the restricted movements of the men, checkers does not have the almost limitless possibilities of variations in games that exist in chess. Those who have made exhaustive studies of checkers see virtually all of its possibilities. Except for a careless slip, two such players are most likely to arrive at a drawn game— a game in which neither can capture all of his opponent's pieces.

Chess, played on the same kind of board with sixteen pieces for each player, is a far more absorbing game, and a chess player is not likely to waste his time on checkers. Whereas a checker player has a choice of only eight moves for his opening and nine for his second move, chess offers twenty choices for an opening and the possibility of many more for the second move.

The place and date of origin of chess is not known. Originally called checkers, it takes its name from shah, and for that reason, many believe that it was first played in Persia. It has also been ascribed to Greece, Rome, Babylon, Egypt, China, and India. At any rate, it is definitely known that chess was played at least 1,000 years ago, and whatever its country of origin, it is now played all over the world.

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