Charles Clendell Walker (December 11, 1934 – August 12, 2024) was an American Mississippi state checkers (draughts) champion and Christian minister.
In a January 1992 match that lasted over eight hours, he played 229 checkers games simultaneously.
[2][3] In 1994, he set a Guinness World Record while playing 306 checkers games simultaneously and losing only one.
[14] Walker was arrested by ICE agents on January 7, 2005 in an undercover sting operation and charged with attempted money laundering of "$6 million in represented drug smuggling proceeds".
[19] The International Checkers Hall of Fame was kept open until Walker's sentencing, but the building was destroyed by fire on September 29, 2007.