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  • By writing the names and moves of the various pieces on bits of paper and pasting them on ordinary checkermen the game may be played quite as well as with the ornate pieces used upon Mars.

    The Chessmen of Mars 1922

  • The game was finally discontinued, owing to a shortage of checkermen which they had secreted in their pockets, a fact which each one stoutly denied with many weird and rather indelicate vows.

    Biltmore Oswald The Diary of a Hapless Recruit Thorne Smith 1913

  • By writing the names and moves of the various pieces on bits of paper and pasting them on ordinary checkermen the game may be played quite as well as with the ornate pieces used upon

    The Chessmen of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912

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