Checkers = Baby Chess?

I hate the game of checkers. SOOOOO much. Especially after I learned how to play chess. The whole point of checkers is to kill everything. And if you can do that and keep a few pieces alive; you win.

Sounds kinda fun right? But then the checkers move like deranged pawns.. Only able to move in their obscure attacking angles. You can't flank/protect other checkers from being murdered. And if you get a checker to the other side they become a "King", which is EXACTLY LIKE A BISHOP IN CHESS!

Do any of you guys feel the same way about checkers? Or see it the same way?

I am a fantastic checkers player.  The strategy involved is very awesome and complex.  There is absolutely no luck invovled. (As in chess)  The scope of the game is so much less than chess though, since pieces must be moved forward and jumps are forced.  But nonetheless it is a beautiful game.

if checkers wasn't an easy game then how come computers have solved it

 Easy for computers does not imply easy for humans.

That is indeed infuriating!

I never knew about canadian checkers. And that does sound A LOT more interesting! The only really good part about checkers is making a series of jumps like they do in the cartoons and killing a lot of your opponent's pieces!

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I hate checkers in general except the turkish checkers (Dama) because it's well known in my country and pieces don't move diagonally !

Forgive my lack of knowledge but at my chess club we share the hall with people who play checkers but on a 10x10 board, so what's the deal there since I always considered that to be the international norm

It's funny when chess players point out checkers is not as complex, as if it's easier.  Does a chess rating of 2000 automatically give you a certain proficiency for checkers?

In neither game can a human achieve perfect play, so from a practical standpoint they're equally complex.  That's my 2 cents.

You mean, 'Nobody plays canadian checkers...eh?'

Checkers is draughts, draughts has nothing to do with chess at all, it's a completely different game. If you get a checker to the other side of the board, it becomes a "Crown", and it doesn't move like a bishop in chess, it's able to move backwards but that's it, it can't go anywhere diagonal. 

In the Danish languages baby chess is a special kind of chess where you set in the captured pieces

Interesting. Could you elaborate on the rules? (Vad heter det på danska? "Baby-skak?" )

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bughouse_chess

Here is a link.

Det hedder babyskak på dansk.

Babyskak er en disciplin, hvor ialt 4 spillere danner par to og to og spiller mod hinanden. Hver spiller på 2-mandsholdet har sit eget skakbræt og sin egen modstander. Det ganske særlige ved denne skakform er, at de brikker som makkeren erobrer fra modstanderen bliver givet til én og kan sættes ind på ens skakbræt efter eget ønske. Det modsatte er også tilfældet: de brikker man selv erobrer bliver straks givet til medspilleren. Det følger heraf, at hvis man selv har hvid, må ens makker have sort, således at de modtagne brikker har denne rette hvide farve.

Særregler findes til spillet og må være aftalt inden start - må man fx sætte en modtaget brik ind med direkte mat til følge, eller skal matten laves af en brik, der allerede står på brættet?

Tackar! I Sverige tror jag det heter Chock (har också hört Schock). Försökte hitta det med Google men på svenska handlar babyskak mer om rystede babyer än om schack...

sure!

That's easy for you to say...

…and that concludes today's lesson on the Scandinavian languages. Tune in next week for another exciting episode of "How to achieve world domination through the use of obscure languages.".