After nearly 40 years at its Shaw outpost, the Capital Pool Checkers Association is searching for a new clubhouse. The landlord that owns the building where the group gathers is selling the building, ...

Capital Pool Checkers | Made in Shaw from David Ross on Vimeo. The Capital Pool Checkers Association has been around in one form or another for more than three decades. Currently, the club resides in ...

It was a foregone conclusion that Robert “Z Man” Mackey would trounce Bryant “Buster” McClain in checkers on a recent Thursday night. The fundamental uncertainty at the Capital Pool Checkers club in ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica — In a ground-breaking achievement, Jamaica’s Ricardo Roach clinched the silver medal in the prestigious Masters Division at the four-day American Pool Checkers Association (APCA) ...

James Searles, who elevated the lightning-fast form of checkers played mainly in barbershops, in parks and on sidewalks to the province of an exclusive if distinctly clamorous society — the Brooklyn ...

Going by their nicknames, you might think they were gangsters or ballplayers instead of older gents whiling away the time with a board game. There's Hit Man and Big Willie and Junebug and Chicken ...

In a Vine City shotgun house, the dying art of pool checkers, a complex variation of the popular board game, still endures. Stokes introduces us to the obscure pastime: The Georgia Pool Checkers ...