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· us: a two-player board game...
draughts
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checkerboard
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The Chimpanzee Champion
A cheap, changeable, child-like chimpanzee champion playing checkers with Charles.
The repeated ch starts use /tʃ/. Begin with short groups such as cheap, changeable and chimpanzee champion, then connect the whole sentence.
Etymology
The plural game name comes from checker, a piece or square on a checkered board. Checker belongs to the same chess-derived family as check, ultimately from Persian shah, 'king,' through Arabic and French. Historical chequers can name the same game but also has unrelated uses.