Checkers Game Champions
of the Past Eras
The checkers game champions of the past eras, Checkers/Draughts will be
used interchangeably here because the roots
of the traditional games are the same, with
Draughts as the parent of the more modern
version of Checkers. Most of the champions
of past eras played Draughts and this section
is devoted to these great checkers game players.
When you take a walk into history, especially
searching for biographical data on past legends,
it is often necessary to look in every dusty
nook and darkened cranny to unearth little
tidbits here and there. Checkers champions
of the past eras is now a deep subject. Eventually, through
doggedness and perseverance, some checkers
champions past information comes to light.
However, it becomes a little more difficult
when these noted figures were champions of
the rather obscure game of Checkers/Draughts
in the early days of its inception.
Somewhere along that long corridor into
the checkers games of the past, it was discovered that the first World
Checkers Champion was Andrew
Anderson (1799-1861) of Braidwood, Scotland.
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