To the average firehouse or parlor player, checkers is one of the simplest of indoor sports. Yet since Pearl Harbor the game has waxed inexplicably in popularity. Fighting men have taken it up. Civilians have too.
Newcomers to serious checkers have found that there is more to the game than meets the dilettante's eye. They have learned to call themselves "checkerists," have taken up the game's esoteric lingo, become used to describing moves and successions of moves by the numbered squares on the boards. They even have their private deity: a goddess named Dama...
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