people keep saying that checkers is better than chess do you agree?

No chess is game for people that think strategic and can plan a great move. checkers allows you to win automatically just because someone did an accidental pattern because checkers allows chains that that can destroy ever piece in the path of the chosen move. this is just my opinion you can have your own

They should make it so the knight captures the piece he jumps over and can keep jumping until there are no more pieces to jump.

In chess, Grandmaster Vasyl Ivanchuk has reached the World #2 spot on three occasions, and has also won both the World Blitz (2007) and the World Rapid (2016) championships.

He is also a world-class player at Checkers.

Ivanxhuk is a "Smashingly Good" Grandmaster, but quite Amateurish at Checkers.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasyl_Ivanchuk

"Since 2013
Ivanchuk played in the 2013 Candidates Tournament, which took place in London, from 15 March to 1 April. He finished seventh, with a score of +3−5=6.[11] The tournament was notable for his unusually poor time management (he lost two games on time), as well as his major impact on the leaderboard despite being a tail ender: he managed to defeat both leaders Magnus Carlsen (round 12) and Vladimir Kramnik (round 14), resulting in Carlsen qualifying for the World Chess Championship by tiebreak.

In 2016, Ivanchuk won the World Rapid Chess Championship in Doha, Qatar, with a score of 11/15. He defeated Carlsen, among many others.[12]

In recent years, Ivanchuk has started playing checkers and has achieved a certain level of success. In the World Draughts Federation's July 2019 ranking list he was ranked number 1111 in the world, with a rating of 1997.

Well, I stand corrected on that point.

It's Cool, Man.

Hope you don't think I'm Jivin' Ya.

LOL!!

@bluemu you're not a troll to me. Just an emu.

As a master (MF) in 10x10 draughts I might be biased and as a weak chess player I might not be aware of the strategic ideas in chess, but I do think that draughts is more strategical and chess is more tactical. There is an obvious reason for this as well: in draughts it is an important strategy to make that your opponent has no good moves left, which is possible because pieces can not move backwards. In chess, the objective of the game is to checkmate the king and for this reason gambits and expensive tactics to accomplish this goal are meaningfull, while in draughts combinations make sense only when they gain material or promotion.

No way is that game better than chess.  for a start all the pieces are the same. Boring. In my opinion.

Definitely biased, high-level chess is strategy to set up positions where the opponent is likely to blunder to a tactic. lower level chess is about spotting tactics as they hit you in the face.

Wow, Mam. 

Never have I knowingly spoken to a "Draughts Master."

Is your title in English Checkers or International Draughts?

Here is "International Draughts' 64 Squared Version.

Here:

http://playok.com/en/draughts/

While https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_checkers "Canadian Checkers (Or Draughts)" is the 144 Squared Version of International Draughts.

Then there is South African Draughts (called Dumm) that is 14x14 Squared Draughts.

The Master or Originator Game of those 3 is International or Polish Draughts.

http://mlwi.magix.net/bg/checkersvariants.htm

International / Polish

Checkers Variants

A South African 14 x 14 draughts board. (Photo by Zubair, Cape Town.)

These traditional variants of checkers have rules similar to Dame (International draughts), in which pieces are allowed to capture backwards. Dames (Kings) are “long” (i.e., can slide and jump any number of squares). 

Apparently beating Jobava at a game of checkers was more important to Ivanchuk than claiming his chess title:

It is so Ivanchuk.

This is part of chess strategy, as well ...

im not a troll i see people saying checkers is better than chess