checkers vs chess

bvnvn

no because like chess haha

Checkers is just a cheap knock off version of chess.

chess all the way

but a rook can move backwards

I don't think checkers is a version of chess, because checkers came first. By a lot. The two games were created independently during much different times and places. I think a better way of saying it is chess is a more complicated, intricate, version of checkers.

Chess is not a version of checkers. Totally different games!

They ARE totally different games. Created at different times, by different people, for different reasons. But since checkers came first, and chess is so much more complex, a good way of thinking about it is chess is just a more complicated and intricate version of checkers.

Since they currently use the same board, with the starting pieces arranged in a somewhat similar pattern, with some similar moves, most people are going to think they are similar anyway.

They are not similar. I play both. Require totally different thinking.