The two-player game is played on a checkerboard — a wooden or plastic square with checkered squares. The earliest version of checkers was found in the ancient Mesopotamian city of Ur ...

The rules: Players each get 15 checkers and a pair of dice ... realized they’d found a rare king piece from this ancient game, they immediately ran out to buy and try modern sets, she says.

"Although the names of these games have changed from ancient times to the ... strategy," Çelikbaş noted. "Checkers played ...

He likens them to checkers or Battleship and emphasizes ... as it is known that bone pieces were used to play ancient strategy games,” Celikbas says. He views the pieces as evidence that a ...