VIDOR, Texas — A South African man who is the reigning world champion in checkers lived up to his title this week when he won the 2022 USA checkers tournament in Vidor. The City of Vidor welcomed ...

Few in the world have mastered the game of checkers the way a southern Indiana teenager has. Fourteen-year-old Alex Holmes of Sellersburg resident captured the 2013 World Checker Draughts Federation ...

PETAL, MS (WDAM) - The International Checker Hall of Fame is hosting a world championship event at it's location in Petal this week. Opening ceremony for the Women's World Checker Championships was ...

"The world's top checkers players consider Tallinn to be a high-class location," Estonian Draughts Federation President Tarmo Tulva said. "Last year, the women's world championship took place in ...

Long-time world checkers champion Marion Tinsley consistently bested all comers, losing only nine games in the 40 years following his 1954 crowning. He lost his world championship title to a computer ...

Beginning Saturday, Cleveland will host a world-title checkers tournament between 10-year reigning champion Alex Moiseyev of Columbus and Michele Borghetti of Italy. The two men will play four games a ...

Colton Cardie carefully eyes the field of play. He squints. He sits on his hands. He flexes, stretches. He then flicks a whippet of an arm and executes a perfect triple jump, thoroughly demoralizing ...