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Princeton's WordNet

  1. checkers, draughtsnoun

    a checkerboard game for two players who each have 12 pieces; the object is to jump over and so capture the opponent's pieces

Wiktionary

  1. draughtsnoun

    A game for two players played on a chessboard in which the players each have 12 pieces, known as men, and the object is to capture each of the opponent's pieces by jumping one's own pieces over the opponent's pieces. (See the Wikipedia page for the full rules of the game. There are various variants of the game.)

Wikipedia

  1. draughts

    Checkers (American English), also known as draughts (; British English), is a group of strategy board games for two players which involve diagonal moves of uniform game pieces and mandatory captures by jumping over opponent pieces. Checkers is developed from alquerque. The term "checkers" derives from the checkered board which the game is played on, whereas "draughts" derives from the verb "to draw" or "to move".The most popular forms of checkers in Anglophone countries are American checkers (also called English draughts), which is played on an 8×8 checkerboard; Russian draughts, Turkish draughts both on an 8x8 board, and International draughts, played on a 10×10 board – the latter is widely played in many countries worldwide. There are many other variants played on 8×8 boards. Canadian checkers and Singaporean/Malaysian checkers (also locally known as dum) are played on a 12×12 board. American checkers was weakly solved in 2007 by a team of Canadian computer scientists led by Jonathan Schaeffer. From the standard starting position, perfect play by each side would result in a draw.

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  1. draughts

    Draughts is a strategic board game for two players which involves diagonal moves of uniform game pieces and mandatory captures by jumping over opponent pieces. It is also known as Checkers in many countries. The term can also refer to the depth of water needed to float a boat, or the act of drawing or pulling a load. Further, it could refer to a current of cool air in a room or other confined space.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Draughts

    a mild vesicatory. See Draught, n., 3 (c)

  2. Draughts

    a game, now more commonly called checkers. See Checkers

Wikidata

  1. Draughts

    Draughts or checkers is a group of strategy board games for two players which involve diagonal moves of uniform game pieces and mandatory captures by jumping over opponent pieces. Draughts developed from alquerque. The name derives from the verb to draw or to move. The most popular forms are international draughts, played on a 10×10 board, and English draughts, also called American checkers, played on an 8×8 checkerboard, but there are many other variants including some played on a 12×12 board.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of draughts in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of draughts in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of draughts in a Sentence

  1. John Gay:

    Fill it up. I take as large draughts of liquor as I did of love. I hate a flincher in either.

  2. Alexander Pope, An essay on Criticism:

    A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: there shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again.

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