Answers.Body: <p>While tactical skills (calculating accurately several moves ahead) can definitely translate, everything else is completely different</p>
  
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Answers.Text: Can you please elaborate on how can it be translated from the tactical skill of chess?
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Answers.Text: You have spent hours trying to figure out how the board will look after a sequence of forced moves
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Answers.Text: Because of the forced capture rule, it is also easier to calculate deeper into lines than chess. Much less branching to consider.
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Answers.Body: <p>Checkers is at the point where it is all memorization.  For Fischer chess was too close to that for him to really enjoy it any more.</p>
  <p>For most of us chess still has enough problems to solve to keep us interested.</p>
  
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Body: <p>After watching <a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=EnIbviCB4yU" rel="noreferrer">GM Vasyl Ivanchuk's victory against GM Baadur Jobava in checkers,</a> I have a question in my mind:</p>
  <p><strong>Is it possible to relate checkers with the tactical knowledge of chess? If so, how?</strong></p>
  
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Title: Relation between checkers and chess
ThreadText: # Relation between checkers and chess
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2020-07-17)
  
  After watching [GM Vasyl Ivanchuk's victory against GM Baadur Jobava in checkers,](http://youtube.com/watch?v=EnIbviCB4yU) I have a question in my mind:
  
  **Is it possible to relate checkers with the tactical knowledge of chess? If so, how?**
  
  **Tags:** learning, tactics, psychology
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2020-07-17. Score: 4
  
  While tactical skills (calculating accurately several moves ahead) can definitely translate, everything else is completely different
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_0**: Can you please elaborate on how can it be translated from the tactical skill of chess?  
  > **username_1**: You have spent hours trying to figure out how the board will look after a sequence of forced moves  
  > **username_2**: Because of the forced capture rule, it is also easier to calculate deeper into lines than chess. Much less branching to consider.  
  
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  ### Answer by username_3 on 2020-07-18. Score: 1
  
  Checkers is at the point where it is all memorization. For Fischer chess was too close to that for him to really enjoy it any more.
  
  For most of us chess still has enough problems to solve to keep us interested.
  
  
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