SAVANNAH, GA (WTOC) - Retired veterans and police officers joined well known Savannah residents for a community-building checkers tournament against challengers from Macon on Saturday. The Savannah ...

The game has suffered from a checkered past in recent decades, but Neil Wenberg is determined to make a move that could help checkers return to its former glory. Self-effacing in a friendly, ...

It's quiet inside the Jacksonville Checker Club. Two men, oblivious to the thumping music blasting from passing cars and people scurrying outside the building on the corner of 21st Street and Myrtle ...

Thwack. Special K slams a red game piece down on a green square within threatening distance of his opponent’s yellow disk. Z Man stares at him, then down at the checkers board, then back at Special K.

The clocks on the walls no longer work, the furnace is busted, and the only window is covered with a thick sheet of plywood. Not to worry: No one ever went to the Capital Pool Checkers Association for ...

2002-10-22 04:00:00 PDT New York-- James Searles, who elevated the lightning-fast form of checkers played mainly by black men in barbershops, parks and sidewalks to the province of an exclusive if ...