checker

Not checkers, not chess, not Connect Four, certainly not a half-court shot with $1,200 on the line.

One of the most renowned names in the field of Go, a strategy board game that combines chess and checkers, the 22-year-old is presently ranked No.

Not to be a killjoy fact-checker, but this does seem like an important detail to get right.

As a dyslexic,” he said, “the spell checker has transformed my life.

I was a fact-checker for Time International, working on the European and Asian editions.

Then you graduated to clipper and finally to researcher—or fact-checker.

“When the fact checker from This American Life contacted Daisey, Daisey created a story,” Hesseldahl said.

They moved toward the door, but there Mr. Spackles paused to look back grandly upon the checker players.

"Now we can sit around the fire after dinner and tell stories," she said, putting away her papers in an old checker-board.

But so fine a house ought to have a better checker-board than a barrel-head, with grains of corn for men.

As he handed them to the checker, he looked casually around.

Another half hour passed, and then he decided to get up and watch one of the checker games that was in progress near him.