"Did she tell you we used to play checkers all the time, or anything?"

What they liked best was playing checkers, a game that has not changed.

Old men play checkers outside her building at all hours.

The Garden people lived too soft a life to play good checkers.

A little distance away, a group of old men were playing checkers at a table.

They did play checkers but George was a much better player and could win almost all the time.

Or sometimes he'd play checkers with one of the older children.

For example, a chess playing computer program cannot play checkers.

A couple of old black men sat in a corner playing checkers.

They had been playing checkers together, and so far David was ahead by nine games to six.