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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsChess players think us checkers players are stupid.
But you know what? The red ones are absolutely delicious.
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Chess players think us checkers players are stupid. (Original Post)
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lastlib
(26,383 posts)1. I'm a chess player, and I don't think checkers players are stupid....
I'm a chess player because I think pawns are really tasty with chocolate!
DBoon
(24,023 posts)4. i prefer pawns with lemon and butter
or is that prawns?
lastlib
(26,383 posts)6. To each his own.....

LudwigPastorius
(13,054 posts)2. I prefer Go.
...because you get a whole bowl of mints AND a whole bowl of licorice.
Intractable
(1,182 posts)3. Checkers players are smart enough to ...
play their game on chess boards.
ret5hd
(21,648 posts)5. Girl checker players think...
boy checker players are stupid:
AllaN01Bear
(26,709 posts)7. anyone play chinese checkers as a kid ?

lastlib
(26,383 posts)8. Yes.
And everything I learned from chess made me better at Chinese checkers.
Oeditpus Rex
(42,158 posts)9. It's the same game
but checkers has no social hierarchy.
"Oh, king, eh? Very nice! And 'ow'd you get that, 'ey? By exploitin' the workers! By 'anging on to outdated imperialist dogma, which perpetuates the economic and social differences in our society! If there's ever going to be any progress with the --"