bob wrote:

Suppose that it has been discovered that with a certain opening
play that the first player can force a win. One might then say that
checkers has been solved. This knowledge though does not say what the
theoretical status of the game is if a different opening play is
forced.

Do a Google search on phrases (with the quotation marks) such as:

"weakly solved"
"strongly solved"
"ultra-weakly solved"
"ultra-strongly solved"

....then come back and post an answer that DOESN'T suck.