Is Checkers Better Than Chess? 

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Im a 2200 chessplayer, i like also checkers , but i dont play it anymore , not cause i dont want , i love checkers and chess , but cause there is a lot of information about chess , i dont know why checkers has fallen behind in popularity , also if i play checkers , i must think like a computer, its very brain challenging, chess is als good brain game , but to calculate, its not that easy, you must known strategie, and most of the time , moves are made intuïtief, i hope checkers wil be great again, cause its a great game .

Im a 2100 chess player. I feel like while our games has similarities, mainly the board, for me the stronger competition means that there is more prestige in success. Another benefit of more competition is that if you live in a smaller town there will often be a chess club, but no checkers club, so its easier to join the community.

Damian, well deserved title of the one of the biggest online creators in the field of Checkers. Really valuable content! 👏

Variety is the spice of life. It's great that we humans came up with a ton of different board games to enjoy. Comparing them makes little sense, each of them highlights a different strategic skill. Just like you shouldn't 'compare' apples and pears just because both of them grow on trees. They are good in their own way.

One point that deserves to be emphasized in a future video is the importance and interest of the compulsory capture in checkers. For many people, this is an absurd rule that limits the player's strategic choices (it's hard to imagine chess with such a rule). And, of course, they have lost because of moves imposed by their opponents, which reinforces their conviction. It's counter-intuitive to think that this is one of the basic elements of checkers, whatever its variant. As a result, we end up with a lot of people playing the simplest version of the game (American), and without the obligatory catch! So it's hardly surprising that they regard checkers as a little game that has nothing to do with chess. However, it's only when you begin to master the art of sacrificing pieces to win more captures that you begin to perceive the richness of the game of checkers. (And if you switch to the international variant, it's even better...).

I think I can safely assume that draughts (in the Netherlands it's the 100 squares checkered board variation we play) is more difficult than chess for chess players and chess is more difficult than draughts for draughts players, and reasons draughts players have for that are probably different from the reasons for the chess players. It's definitely a fact that the entry step of draughts is easier to take and that the rules of the game are easier to be taught. I also think that it may be easier to get good at it if you're raised with it, so to speak. However, my vision on draughts is one from the perspective of someone who has been raised more with chess, and from that perspective, draughts will certainly be harder to be good at. One problem that probably hasn't been mentionex by anyone else in the comments, but which I may have, is the feeling of a lack of 'transparancy' a draughts position can give me, especially in the opening phase of the game, where a log of pieces are still on the board. This tranparancy thing may sound weird, but allthough all 20 pieces on your side have the same simple capabilities, it is exactly that what makes the roles and tasks of each of the pieces less obvious to me. Chess is harder to learn playing and probably much harder to strategically master, but the differences tbe pieces and their positions provide me with make a bit more sense to me in terms of their roles and tasks. A piece's abilities in chess make it easier for me to give that particular piece its own task. I'm convinced that you would have enough reasons to argue that each piece in draughts has its own task, very much depending on its position and surroundings, and you would be right, of course. But to me it's less obvious and therefor more difficult to deal with, allthough the much larger number of possible moves in chess will also make it more likely to make a decisive mistake. Chess is harder to play good, but it gives me more transparancy due to the pieces' differences in abilities. That doesn't mean that bigger local variations of chess, like the 36×36 square variant of shogi, would provide me with more of that transparancy I'm talking about. With 207 different types of pieces on the board, any player of chess would be lost in the chaos. But 6 different pieces make it much more doable. I hope you understand what I'm saying.

Very nice video, thank you, Damian!👍

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I Like Chess Because Of The Pieces, It Is Needed A Strategic Thinking And Logical Knowledge To Make Moves, While I Like Draughts Because Of Its Forces Captures, It Is Easy To Calculate And Make Traps For Your Opponent.

I just started playing chess and the main reason more people like me play chess is because of it's huge popularity and high resources available, I got into chess as GothamChess videos were on my feed and I never really have played checkers and don't kniw it's rules but it's nice that it has a decent community and maybe someday I will join the checkers community but for now, I feel like sticking to chess. Good video and hope you can become the GothamChess of checkers. Also, do you believe chess gms can be good at checkers faster than people like me who have 500/600 elo? And vice versa for checkers masters??

In one of the scenes, the game we can see is not checkers, but Chinese chess. It looks like checkers because it uses two-dimensional pieces.

Moim zdaniem szachy znacznie przeważają i biją popularnością warcaby. Choćby dlatego, że jak już pisałem mają wszędzie te same zasady gry a warcabów jest zbyt wiele odmian. W szachy zasiadamy i po prostu gramy w każdym zakątku świata, a w warcaby trzeba najpierw ustalić zasady gry, wielkość szachownicy i może się okazać, że każdy gracz woli co innego. Szachy to też np. jeden z elementów rywalizacji Stanów Zjednoczonych z Rosjanami, gdzie Fischer potrafił skutecznie ogrywać rosyjskich arcymistrzów, a szachowa szkoła radziecka od zawsze uchodziła za najlepszą. Potem szachy bardzo rozpropagował słynny mecz Kasparowa z komputerem. Coś niesamowitego, że człowiek grał z maszyną i do tego wygrywał. Chyba między innymi dlatego zainteresowałem się tą grą. Warcaby raczej nie miały takiego przebicia. Mam wrażenie, że najlepszego szachistę świata Magnusa Carlsena każdy kojarzy, niezależnie czy gra w szachy czy nie. Tysiące artykułów w internecie o tym graczu wychwalających jego talent, Mozart szachów jak go nazwano. Natomiast o warcabach jakoś cicho. Jeśli sam nie zacznę szukać informacji o mistrzu świata w warcabach czy najlepszych zawodnikach to nic nie będę wiedział, bo te informacje nie są zbyt popularne. Nawet fakt, że w warcabach, przynajmniej kobiecych, mamy większe sukcesy niż w szachach też jakoś nie poprawia tej sytuacji choćby w naszym kraju. Natalia Sadowska dwukrotną mistrzynią świata, kto o tym słyszał, ja dowiedziałem się chyba kiedyś przypadkiem i już zdążyłem zapomnieć. Jakby Jan-Krzysztof Duda ograł Carlsena i został mistrzem świata wiedzieliby wszyscy i wszędzie by o tym pisano. Już o samym meczu byłoby bardzo głośno, niezależnie od wyniku.

Honestly, I enjoyed this video. But as a person who prefers chess to checkers, I want to put my input. So I agree that the low barrier to enter is better, its potential to be played by many, and the standing out are all true advantages. I also agree that chess and checkers shouldn't be compared as harshly as they are. But couldn't the lesser competitive competition be seen as a disadvantage. Continuing, while yes there probably are more checkers players than chess, using Google Play Store downloads to represent the popularity of what is primarily a website feels off to me. Anyhow, thanks for the great content.

I am a chess player who wants to learn and play checkers Where can I learn it

As a chess player I love checkers it’s so fun and amazing! The only reason that it’s not considered on the level of chess is due to the lack of pieces, but I will never hate it.

En lo personal me gustan mucho el ajedrez y las damas, sin embargo las damas requieren menos esfuerzo para jugar a un nivel decente, en cambio el ajedrez es como estar en la escuela, todos los días hay que entrenar y memorizar, esa fue una de mis razones para ir dejando de competir, incluso llegue a desarrollar trastornos de sueño por esto, en cambio las damas me han encantado llevo un año jugando y he logrado un muy buen nivel, en la escuela le he enseñado a muchos de mis amigos a jugar y les gusta, uno requiere una gran mente o un gran entrenamiento, aunque si me desanima el hecho de que en mi país no es nada popular, ni siquiera tienen federación, a pesar de eso a las damas les tengo mucho cariño, podría decir que incluso más que al ajedrez, aunque no se deberían comparar, son dos deportes muy divertidos que he disfrutado gratamente. Muy buen video.

1:40 that's an absolute lie

Wow, such a informative video, never knew checkers had so much theory in it, and as a chess player, checkers feels like a silly game you play with your friends kinda like Tic Tac Toe.

in chess you have 200 motif like forks or pin in checkers you have one

Idk I play both and enjoy both probably chess more but that's only coz I'm good at it

The main reason why Chess is thought to be better than Checkers is because it's more complicated. That's also why Baduk is considered to be better than Chess. At the end of the day play what you like.

Checkers is just too bland and limiting. It predominantly relies on calculations. In chess concepts like peace dynamics synergy coordination and development simply have more depth to them.

So you’re saying checkers is simpler and easier than chess hence it’s better? I draw the opposite conclusion

_squints at channel name_ Yeah, that checks out. No bias here.

notacja warca bowa to chinskie znaczki

5:37 No, there isn't.

Soy campeón 🏆 de damas y tienes razón en todo crack 😉👌

Chess is male, Checkers is female. That's about it. Both are practicaly Perfect games.

To me comparing chess and checkers is more like comparing American football to World football (soccer). Despite soccer's simpler rules (with less equipment and a lower barrier to entry), it remains the most widely played sports in the world. Complexity of a game has nothing to do with it's appeal to a wider audience. But Americans tend to find soccer more boring just like they do checkers. Yet both chess and checkers require creativity, and mental strategic thinking despite checkers having simpler rules. Another ridiculous argument I have seen chess enthusiast use to bash checkers is that checkers (the American version) is solved (by the computer) and therefore a waste of time to play. First, international draughts is still not solved, and even if all checker variations were solved, how does that take away from experiencing the beauty of the game. Humans still can't acquire enough knowledge to beat the best checker programs. And when it comes to chess, no human has ever crossed an ELO of 2900 and similarly, no human today has a chance against the best computer programs (like stockfish with an ELO of 3400+). So what difference does it make if chess is not yet solved? These programs will only continue to improve widening the gap against humans. So does that make chess a useless game to learn? I don't think so. The bottom line is that board games like checkers (draughts), chess, go, etc, should not be compared as to which is better but each in its own way helps us learn how to think strategically and purposely while hopefully letting us have some fun during that process, and for others - maybe even help make a living doing so. After all - beauty is in the eyes of the beholder.

Only chessers

Thank you!

1:36 looks like chinese chess for me🤔

I had a mental breakdown in chess class in summer school in 3rd grade. This is because my chess teacher told us that the yellow chess pieces were team lemonade and it was 102 degrees that day and I was super thirsty. And hearing the word lemonade that my me more thirsty and that made me cry and roll all over the floor and I only lasted 2 days in that class. I dont’t have any bias with chess however I am sticking with checkers for now

Video too tedious. Just go for chess

Heck no

El ajedrez es muy facil para mi....las damas es mas complicado, no puedes recular si cometiste un error.

cheess is better in my opinion beacause you have a lot pieces in checkers you have one piece so this isn't intresting

Biggest cope ever.

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