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'''Checkers''' is a two-player strategy [[recreation|board game]] from [[Earth]]. The game is played with twelve, usually round, pieces per player, placed on a checker board. The object of the game is for each player to move their pieces diagonally across the board by jumping, or capturing, the opponent's pieces. The first person to capture all of the opponent's pieces wins. |
'''Checkers''' is a two-player strategy [[recreation|board game]] from [[Earth]]. The game is played with twelve, usually round, pieces per player, placed on a checker board. The object of the game is for each player to move their pieces diagonally across the board by jumping, or capturing, the opponent's pieces. The first person to capture all of the opponent's pieces wins. |
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+ | A three-dimensional [[board game]] played with checkers pieces on chess-like boards was among those available for play aboard the {{USS|Enterprise|NCC-1701}}. ({{TOS|The Naked Time}}) |
The [[augment]]s from the [[SS Botany Bay|SS ''Botany Bay'']] played checkers, with a makeshift board and pieces, while they lived as castaways on [[Ceti Alpha V]]. |
The [[augment]]s from the [[SS Botany Bay|SS ''Botany Bay'']] played checkers, with a makeshift board and pieces, while they lived as castaways on [[Ceti Alpha V]]. |
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Their board, with several pieces missing, were among the articles discovered by [[Captain]] [[Clark Terrell]] and [[Commander]] [[Pavel Chekov]] while investigating the cargo containers discovered in [[2285]] during their visit to the [[planet]] they believed to be [[Ceti Alpha VI]]. ({{film|2}}) |
Their board, with several pieces missing, were among the articles discovered by [[Captain]] [[Clark Terrell]] and [[Commander]] [[Pavel Chekov]] while investigating the cargo containers discovered in [[2285]] during their visit to the [[planet]] they believed to be [[Ceti Alpha VI]]. ({{film|2}}) |
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Revision as of 16:52, 12 October 2007
A makeshift checker board with pieces
Checkers is a two-player strategy board game from Earth. The game is played with twelve, usually round, pieces per player, placed on a checker board. The object of the game is for each player to move their pieces diagonally across the board by jumping, or capturing, the opponent's pieces. The first person to capture all of the opponent's pieces wins.
A three-dimensional board game played with checkers pieces on chess-like boards was among those available for play aboard the USS Enterprise. (TOS: "The Naked Time")
The augments from the SS Botany Bay played checkers, with a makeshift board and pieces, while they lived as castaways on Ceti Alpha V.
Their board, with several pieces missing, were among the articles discovered by Captain Clark Terrell and Commander Pavel Chekov while investigating the cargo containers discovered in 2285 during their visit to the planet they believed to be Ceti Alpha VI. (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan)