VIDOR, Texas — A South African man who is the reigning world champion in checkers lived up to his title this week when he won the 2022 USA checkers tournament in Vidor. The City of Vidor welcomed ...

For an exercise in futility, play checkers against a computer program named Chinook. Developed by computer scientists at the University of Alberta in Canada, Chinook vanquished human competitors at ...

Vidor Checkers USA’s competition series continues to grow in attendance, scope and spectacle, receiving a national sponsor and drawing an entire team from the back-to-back title winner’s home country.

Colton Cardie carefully eyes the field of play. He squints. He sits on his hands. He flexes, stretches. He then flicks a whippet of an arm and executes a perfect triple jump, thoroughly demoralizing ...

Willoughby Public Library will be hosting a program March 18 on how to win at checkers with Richard Beckwith, grandmaster and president of the World Checkers Draughts Federation. The program will take ...

Some of the best checkers players in the world will be coming to Vidor next week for the ACF GAYP USA National Checkers Championship. "Players from across the world will be traveling to our town and ...

The TLH 200: Gerald Ensley Memorial Bicentennial Project is proud to announce the seventh installment of our rolling list of 200 people who laid the foundation for the growth of the civil society we ...