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checkers (game)  

Definition

  • Checkers is not a single game but a family. Checkers (or Draughts as it is known in England) may have been played in Ur, modern-day Iraq, as early as 3000 b.c.e. [Source: Encyclopedia of Play in Today's Society; Checkers and Variations of]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-T5955WTS-6

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