Chess is more fun..
..than checkers, anywhere
You can't underpromote in checkers!
Though in retrospect, you can only truly underpromote during bughouse matches. Queens cannot become pawns (absolute underpromotion) in normal chess. . .
we have bishops, knights, and rooks in chess plus our pieces have more variety of moving styles-->vertically
In Checkers, you can sacrifice your king.
Who would ever sacrifice a KING?! In Chess, we usually sacrifice the lady, we don't need her anyway
In top level chess, there are three common results - a win for white, a draw and a win for black. Chess has not been solved.
In top level checkers, there is only one common result - a draw. Checkers has been solved.
Two reasons
1,000,000,000 more threads like this please.
sure: http://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/10000000000001-googleplex-reasons-why-chess-is-better-than-poker