We used to play a lot of draughts together, I remember.

At a small table two patients were sitting playing draughts.

Rules of the game are almost similar to English draughts.

His mouth opened and pulled air in like draughts of water.

His works also include several puzzle books and a book on draughts.

It took draughts of clear air to make the gas effective.

Draughts are very common and almost every year the town has to face water shortage.

There were draughts through the window frame, under the door.

It took great draughts of my blood to restore him.

Keep it warm, and out of draughts - I know that much.

I've been giving him black draughts all day, or at least this fellow has.

Place them in a warm dry position away from draughts or you'll lose the lot.

It opened up the back and let in chilly night draughts.

But, given its significant complexity over draughts, it's difficult to say when that would be.

A free program that allows you to play more than 20 kinds of draughts.

The game is played by the standard rule for English draughts.

The night was cold and draughts swept round the room.

She sat beside him, breathing in great draughts of air.

And so they found themselves in the street once more inhaling long draughts of the night air.

Though try to avoid too much direct sunlight or draughts.

He washed this down with draughts of strong black tea.

She was breathing hard, sucking in large draughts of air.

Both fireplace and bed are placed beyond the reach of draughts.

Checkers or draughts is the name of several different board games.

Draughts, very good make sure the baby's not in a draught can you think of anything else?

Old men play checkers outside her building at all hours.

Two old men met in a park for a game of checkers.

"Those people are not just going to come to work and play checkers."

"Did she tell you we used to play checkers all the time, or anything?"

Model checkers can also be used for test case generation.

At last he found what he'd been looking for: the set of checkers.

Or sometimes he'd play checkers with one of the older children.

Six of his Checkers are on the street, with four more due by year's end.

Some studies in machine learning using the game of checkers.

A little distance away, a group of old men were playing checkers at a table.

All this from a good, but not perfect, game of checkers.

You'll have people coming in the shop and it's like checkers.

"In the past you had to be 18, but now we have checkers who are 16," he said.

A couple of old black men sat in a corner playing checkers.

Also important were injuries to two key checkers, one for each team.

They did play checkers but George was a much better player and could win almost all the time.

"People are tired, and you cannot use them like checkers."

The other player's checkers are placed on his 24 point.

They had been playing checkers together, and so far David was ahead by nine games to six.

What they liked best was playing checkers, a game that has not changed.

"Checkers can get quite a hold on you," he once said.

But it's the grave of Checkers the public still comes to see.

"Maybe you should take on Fleming at checkers the next time!"

But when his hand was full of checkers, he flung them down again.

On the surface, checkers may appear to be a simple game.

Beyond it was a line of wild service trees, so evenly spaced they might have been planted.

One of their indicator plants is the Wild Service tree which is thriving.

It also contains an unusually large population of wild service trees, while the undergrowth is dominated by bramble and ivy.

There are dense stands of Wild Service tree which is an indicator of ancient woodland.

This has been suggested by evidence of Wild Service trees, which are an indicator of regrown forest.

Notable species include grey wagtails, wild service trees, dippers and several species of bats.

Brampton Wood hosts three examples of Wild Service Tree.

Presence of the Wild Service Tree is commonly taken as an indicator of ancient woodland.

The entrance lane at the old raised beach has an unusual planting in the hedgerow of several common whitebeam x wild service tree hybrids.

Beech, hazel, mountain ash and Wild Service Tree are all rare, though there are some fine specimens of the last species.

The scarce Wild Service Tree (which is evidence of the Woods's ancient origin) is scattered throughout the wood.

The rare Wild Service Tree Sorbus torminalis also grows in the drier places deep in the wood.

Sorbus torminalis (Wild Service Tree)

Also known as Wild Service Tree (Sorbus torminalis), it produces small berries which are called Chequers.

It did not exist before the last Ice Age, probably arising from a hybrid between the Wild Service Tree and another Whitebeam.

A shrub layer includes hawthorns, field maples and wild service trees, and among the ground flora are bluebells and wood anenomes.

The Wild Service Tree, a rare deciduous tree with brown berries, can be found in Highgate Wood.

Sorbus domestica (service tree, or sometimes true service tree to distinguish it from the wild service tree; syn.

Trees include the uncommon wild service tree, and breeding birds include spotted flycatcher, lesser whitethroat, reed bunting and skylark.

The woodland contains dormice, the rare lapidary snail, and uncommon plants such as narrow-leaved helleborine and the wild service tree.

Chequers from the Wild Service Tree or "Chequer(s) Tree", the fruit of which was used to flavour beer before the introduction of hops.

Rare trees include Bristol whitebeam (Sorbus bristoliensis) and Wild Service Tree (Sorbus torminalis).

The ancient woodland consists mainly of sessile oak and hornbeam, with some wild service trees, while secondary woodland areas are mainly birch, hawthorns and sycamore.

Hundreds of trees were felled, with a wild service tree, also known as a chequer, the name of its oval-shaped fruit, a 300-year-old lime and a large cedar among the casualties.

Trees growing in the reserve include oak (found in the centre of the wood on sandy ground), field maple, wild service tree, small-leaved lime, midland hawthorn and Common hawthorn.

A short distance away two patients were playing a game that might have been chequers.

Which would mean she could not have been the woman in black sunglasses at Chequers.

There are now two pubs in the village - the other being the Chequers.

He wheeled her off to get out the chequers and return the puzzle.

The truth was, in his stay in hospital he had read some books on chequers.

He is due to stay at the prime minister's country retreat of Chequers.

The present tenant of Chequers threw back his head and laughed.

But guests who are invited to Chequers tend to get noticed.

There's a line in a song about the old men playing chequers 'neath the trees.

"There are so many things - they talk about them playing chequers, instead of chess or draughts."

Lady Mary remained at Chequers for a period of two years.

Tonight's visit to Chequers was intended to cement the budding relationship between the two leaders.

Set in Chequers, the play parodies the couple's relationship.

The Chequers closed after a fire destroyed its thatched roof in 1985.

At the centre of the village is the 17th century Chequers Inn.

By late 1942, security at Chequers had been improved, notably including covering the road with turf.

And if it's raining, Chinese Chequers is a great game too.

Below this there are two rows of black flint and limestone chequers.

She visited him often in London and was his guest at Chequers.

As with the stage play, on which it was broadly based, it is set at Chequers.

It was past midnight and Peter had returned from his trip to Chequers an hour before.

To continue after his useful time, like an old man playing chequers in the sun, that was his fate now.

Swallowed a dictionary while he hanging out at Chequers!

Blue and white chequers have become the ubiquitous symbol of policing in Australia.

The Chequers is an L-shaped house that was built in the 17th century.

The Hainich Forest features a wide range of beech forest communities, with populations of ash trees, hornbeams, maples, lindens, and occasional checker trees.

Wild Service-tree Sorbus torminalis is found in the wood.

Sorbus torminalis var.

Tauricolum and Sorbus torminalis subsp.

The rare Wild Service Tree Sorbus torminalis also grows in the drier places deep in the wood.

Sorbus torminalis (Wild Service Tree)

Also known as Wild Service Tree (Sorbus torminalis), it produces small berries which are called Chequers.

The main trees are beech, mixed with ash, maple, tilia cordata, hornbeam and chequer tree (Sorbus torminalis).

Even undergrowth plants can appear on this territory, including Malus florentina, Sorbus torminalis, medlar, hazelnuts and white alder.

Rare trees include Bristol whitebeam (Sorbus bristoliensis) and Wild Service Tree (Sorbus torminalis).

Ancient woodland indicators include Small-leaved Lime (Tilia cordata), and Wild Service Tree (Sorbus torminalis), both of which are locally common.

The tree is of hybrid origin, between Sorbus torminalis (wild service tree) and a member of the Sorbus aria (whitebeam) group, but it exhibits apomixis and breeds true from seed.

Sorbus subgenus Torminaria (genus Torminalis), with rather maple-like lobed leaves with pointed lobes; fruit carpels not fused; just one species, Sorbus torminalis (Wild Service Tree).

The public will have access to about 16 acres by the riverside and local schools are helping with the planting, along with Princess Anne, patron of the Woodland Trust, who is planting the first tree, a Wild Service tree (Sorbus torminalis) on October 10.

Specimens of interest include Carya buckleyi, Cedrus libani, Chionanthus retusus, Halesia diptera, Juglans x intermedia, Parrotia persica, Pinus bungeana, Pseudolarix amabilis, Quercus persica, Sorbus torminalis, Taxodium ascendens, and Torreya grandis.

Its major plant species are Pinus brutia, Juniperus phoenicea, with broad-leaved trees and shrubs: Ulmus campestris, Acer sempervirens, Fraxinus ornus, Castanea sativa, Tilia platyphyllos, Sorbus torminalis, Viburnum tinus, Pyrus eleagrifolia and Prunus dulcis.