0 a game for two people, each with twelve circular pieces that they move on a board with black and white squares --
1 a game played by two people on a square board, in which each player has twelve circular pieces that are all moved in the same way --
You can jump as in checkers: that is, you can go over a counter if there is a blank space behind it.
To while away the time they played games and taught the Inca checkers and chess, as well as bowling-on-the-green and quoits.
The sailors amused themselves after the manner of sailors everywhere, playing dominoes, cards and checkers, boxing and telling stories.
And there was the checker-board if they wanted to play checkers or dominoes.
