For a long time Checkers was considered the winner due to being considered to be harder and more modern than Chess was when it comes to warfare
Is this the right way round? I don't know much about classic board game fandoms, but in popular culture, certainly, Chess is seen as the more complicated game (this is even mentioned on the Checkers trope page), if only because you've got all the different pieces to remember. As far as "more modern" goes, Wikipedia dates Checkers to the tenth century (for definite, and more weakly back to Ancient Egypt) and Chess to the seventh, so maybe, but not in a way someone in the 19th century would have found meaningful.
For a long time Checkers was considered the winner due to being considered to be harder and more modern than Chess was when it comes to warfare
Is this the right way round? I don't know much about classic board game fandoms, but in popular culture, certainly, Chess is seen as the more complicated game (this is even mentioned on the Checkers trope page), if only because you've got all the different pieces to remember. As far as "more modern" goes, Wikipedia dates Checkers to the tenth century (for definite, and more weakly back to Ancient Egypt) and Chess to the seventh, so maybe, but not in a way someone in the 19th century would have found meaningful.
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