polish draughts
1Polish draughts — Draughts Draughts, n. pl. A game, now more commonly called {checkers}. See {Checkers}. [1913 Webster] Note: {Polish draughts} is sometimes played with 40 pieces on a board divided into 100 squares. Am. Cyc. [1913 Webster] …
2polish draughts — noun plural but singular in construction see polish checkers …
3Draughts — Draughts, n. pl. A game, now more commonly called {checkers}. See {Checkers}. [1913 Webster] Note: {Polish draughts} is sometimes played with 40 pieces on a board divided into 100 squares. Am. Cyc. [1913 Webster] …
4Draughts — This article is about the group of the board games. For other uses of draft , see Draft (disambiguation). For other uses of checkers , see Checkers (disambiguation). Not to be confused with Drought. Draughts Starting position on a 10×10 draughts… …
5polish checkers — noun plural but singular in construction or polish draughts Usage: usually capitalized P : checkers played usually on a special board of 100 squares in which the men can take opposing men by jumping backward as well as forward and kings can go… …
6International draughts — (also called Polish draughts or international checkers) is a board game, one of the variants of draughts. It is played on a 10×10 board with alternatingly dark and light squares, of which only the 50 dark ones are used. There are two players on… …
7checkers — Draughts Draughts, n. pl. A game, now more commonly called {checkers}. See {Checkers}. [1913 Webster] Note: {Polish draughts} is sometimes played with 40 pieces on a board divided into 100 squares. Am. Cyc. [1913 Webster] …
8Alexandre Deschapelles — Infobox chess player playername =Alexandre Deschapelles birthname =Alexandre Louis Honore Lebreton Deschapelles country = FRA datebirth = birth date|1780|3|7 placebirth = France datedeath = 1847 (aged 67) placedeath = title = worldchampion =… …
9Maurice Raichenbach — (born near Warsaw, Poland on May 12, 1915; died in Hauts de Seine, France on March 1, 1998) was a Polish born French draughts champion. His early childhood was spent in the area around Warsaw, but when he was a boy his mother died and his father… …
10Checkerboard — 5 by 5 checkerboard pattern Checkered pattern on paramed …
