Note: {Polish draughts} is sometimes played with 40 pieces on a board divided into 100 squares. --Am. Cyc. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
polish draughts — noun plural but singular in construction see polish checkers … Useful english dictionary
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] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Draughts — 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… … Wikipedia
polish 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… … Useful english dictionary
International 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… … Wikipedia
checkers — 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] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Alexandre 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 =… … Wikipedia
Maurice 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… … Wikipedia
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James Wyllie — (born July 8, 1818 in Edinburgh; died April 5, 1899) was a Scottish draughts player who is important to the history of the game. He is often nicknamed The Herd Laddie . For many years the date of his birth was uncertain. The day was thought to… … Wikipedia
