What do you say in checkers?

Answer 1

Checkers (in the UK and other countries outside of the US spelled usually chequers) are coloured squares in a pattern of alternating light and dark squares, as in a checkerboard or Chess board.

It is also the name of a game played on such a board (customarily 8 squares by 8) also known in the UK as draughts, using flat discs which are also called checkers.

Answer 2

Draughts is the British equivalent of the board game known as checkers in the United States of America.

Answer 3

In Britain, checkers is called draughts.