Some of them are very popular. See our Rules page for more information. Neither is harder. There are more possible positions in Chess than in Checkers. I suppose that is to imply that chess would take at least a month or two.
Checkers is like looking down a well.
In neither case can a solution be seen, in most cases. Dr. Tinsley was on the Ohio State Chess Team, as a young man, but choose Checkers as the game he could most likely become a Grandmaster at. Irving Chernev , Chess Grandmaster, had an opposite opinion. In 1982 he wrote a book about his 1st love-Checkers. In it, he stated he did not think he could accomplish the Grandmaster status, with Checkers, like he thought he could with Chess.