Originally Posted by bazkitcase5

awesome

I just wish checkers would get the respect that chess gets. Comments like "this isn't checkers" or "this is chess, not checkers" really piss me off. It is obvious when a person makes a comment like this that they have no idea how much there really is to checkers.

They require similar strategical qualities and look ahead skills, but from what I've read, chess tends to be more analytical, while checkers tends to be more math based. The best checker players who ever lived were all good at math. The best that ever lived had his PhD in Mathematics.

I wish I could explain more, but if anybody was truly interested, I'm sure I could find several sources and interested readings on this.

Sorry to thread drift. I really like chess too, but everybody already knows all about chess.