The pieces look more appealing.
1000000000000...(1 googleplex) reasons why Chess is Better than Checkers part 1
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3. In checkers, you only play with 12 pieces -- in chess, you have 16!
4. In checkers, the pieces have to play on the dark squares only. In chess, you have the opportunity to take control of both light and dark squares.
8. In chess, you get to play funny-sounding openings like the Bird, Orangutan, and Hippopotamus.
@mashantor: I agree -- this is a potentially epic thread!

11. chess has diffrent types of opennings, checkers has 2(start form the side or play from the middle)

God doesn't like checkers as much as he likes Chess or he'd be having me on the checkers website and not on here! LOL!
please no religious things, they may insult other
14. checkers is the game that non- chess players play
17. The name. "Checkers" sound silly and in England we call it "Draughts" which is annoying to say and spell.

18.Chess was created in the 6th century while checkers was created in the 12th century. chess is older

19. Checkers has been solved.

20. Chess has a very extensive literature, probably exceeding that of all other games combined.
i meant 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 ....
reasons why Chess is Better than Checkers
1 googleplex = 1 with a google zeros following
1 google = 1 with100 zeros following
I'll Start Off.
1.Chess is harder than checkers