Download or read book Checkers for the Novice written by Richard Pask and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-06-11 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Think checkers is a simple game? Are you ready to discover the incredibly deep inner game of checkers?Want to play checkers at a level you've never even dreamed of?Checkers for the Novice is definitive modern guide for the beginning Anglo-American checkers/draughts player who wishes to reach the upper 1% of the playing population and is willing to do the necessary study and training. Starting with notation and basic rules, the book takes the ambitious novice through elementary tactics and strategy, basic endgames, and a solid freestyle opening repertoire. After mastering this book a player will be a fledgling expert and well prepared for advanced study.Author Richard Pask is a grandmaster with a gift for teaching and this book is clear, lucid, and thorough. Prepare to be amazed at what a deep game checkers truly is --- and how well you're going to be playing it.
Download or read book Win at Checkers written by Millard Hopper and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-04-30 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Improve your game with tips from the former Unrestricted World Checker Champion! More than 100 detailed questions and answers discuss basic principles, standard openings and end games, and other maneuvers.
Download or read book Starting Out in Checkers written by Richard Pask and published by Everyman Chess. This book was released on 2001 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A basic book on Checkers aimed at complete beginners and those Z99 a rudimentary knowledge of the game
Download or read book Play Winning Checkers written by Robert W. Pike and published by Sterling Publishing Company. This book was released on 1999 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn the skills and strategies to play the game of checkers like a champion.
Download or read book Chess Not Checkers written by Mark Miller and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2015-04-06 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As organizations grow in volume and complexity, the demands on leadership change. The same old moves won't cut it any more. In Chess Not Checkers, Mark Miller tells the story of Blake Brown, newly appointed CEO of a company troubled by poor performance and low morale. Nothing Blake learned from his previous roles seems to help him deal with the issues he now faces. The problem, his new mentor points out, is Blake is playing the wrong game. The early days of an organization are like checkers: a quickly played game with mostly interchangeable pieces. Everybody, the leader included, does a little bit of everything; the pace is frenetic. But as the organization expands, you can't just keep jumping from activity to activity. You have to think strategically, plan ahead, and leverage every employee's specific talents—that's chess. Leaders who continue to play checkers when the name of the game is chess lose. On his journey, Blake learns four essential strategies from the game of chess that transform his leadership and his organization. The result: unprecedented performance!
Download or read book Complete Checkers written by Richard Pask and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-01-27 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complete Checkers is the definitive guide to 3-move ballot checkers, a reference for the 21st century and beyond. Grandmaster Richard Pask has combined the wisdom of the great past masters with his own deep insights, supported by modern computer tools. The result is an authoritative guide that every serious checker player will want to own.
Download or read book How to Win at Checkers written by Fred Reinfeld and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book One Jump Ahead written by Jonathan Schaeffer and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-12-16 with total page 571 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s hard to believe that it’s been over a decade since One Jump Ahead: Challenging Human Supremacy at Checkers was published. I’m delighted to have the oppor- nity to update and expand the book. The ?rst edition ended on a sad note and that was re?ected in the writing. It is now eleven years later and the project has come to a satisfying conclusion. Since its inception, the checkers project has consumed eighteen years of my life— twenty if you count the pre-CHINOOK and post-solving work. It’s hard for me to believe that I actually stuck with it for that long. My wife, Steph, would probably have something witty to say about my obsessive behavior. Rereading the book after a decade was dif?cult for me. When I originally wrote One Jump Ahead, I vowed to be candid in my telling of the story. That meant being honest about what went right and what went wrong. I have been criticized for being hard on some of the characters. That may be so, but I hope everyone will agree that the person receiving the most criticism was, justi?ably, me. I tried to be balanced in the storytelling, re?ecting things as they really happened and not as some sanitized everyone-lived-happily-ever-after tale.
Download or read book Seven Games A Human History written by Oliver Roeder and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A group biography of seven enduring and beloved games, and the story of why—and how—we play them. Checkers, backgammon, chess, and Go. Poker, Scrabble, and bridge. These seven games, ancient and modern, fascinate millions of people worldwide. In Seven Games, Oliver Roeder charts their origins and historical importance, the delightful arcana of their rules, and the ways their design makes them pleasurable. Roeder introduces thrilling competitors, such as evangelical minister Marion Tinsley, who across forty years lost only three games of checkers; Shusai, the Master, the last Go champion of imperial Japan, defending tradition against “modern rationalism”; and an IBM engineer who created a backgammon program so capable at self-learning that NASA used it on the space shuttle. He delves into the history and lore of each game: backgammon boards in ancient Egypt, the Indian origins of chess, how certain shells from a particular beach in Japan make the finest white Go stones. Beyond the cultural and personal stories, Roeder explores why games, seemingly trivial pastimes, speak so deeply to the human soul. He introduces an early philosopher of games, the aptly named Bernard Suits, and visits an Oxford cosmologist who has perfected a computer that can effectively play bridge, a game as complicated as human language itself. Throughout, Roeder tells the compelling story of how humans, pursuing scientific glory and competitive advantage, have invented AI programs better than any human player, and what that means for the games—and for us. Funny, fascinating, and profound, Seven Games is a story of obsession, psychology, history, and how play makes us human.
Download or read book 24 Games You Can Play on a Checker Board written by Carol Lynch Williams and published by Gibbs Smith. This book was released on 2007 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Directions for twenty-four games that can be played on a checkerboard.
Download or read book Tricks Traps and Shots of the Checkerboard written by William F. Ryan and published by . This book was released on 2011-03 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Champion checkers player William F. Ryan (1907-1954), known as "The Bronx Comet," provides strategies and tips for successful checkers game play in this informative book. Ryan won the American Championship in 1946, the World Championship in 1949, and the world's first blindfold tournament. Checkers is an easy game to learn, but holds its rightful place as one of the oldest and intellectually challenging board games in the world.
Download or read book Basic Checkers written by Richard L. Fortman and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard L. Fortman's classic 3-move checkers textbook revolutionized tournament and match play, and is still a standard reference for the serious player three decades later. This special reissue corrects typos in the original, using modern typesetting tools not available to Mr. Fortman in his day to achieve a clean and readable presentation.
Download or read book The Little Giant Encyclopedia of Checker Puzzles written by Robert W. Pike and published by Sterling Publishing Company. This book was released on 2001 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Universally popular, checkers is one of the world s oldest and most elegantly structured board games and on a high level, it can demand real strategic thought. Put your skill to the test with these puzzles all based on the Standard American game. (Federation rules appear in their entirety.) Each is solvable in no more than six-and-a-half moves, and sometimes, the winner even seems at a serious disadvantage at the start. Quite a few of the solutions list alternative patterns of play. "
Download or read book Blockade Checkers written by Sir. Dave Nash 1st and published by . This book was released on 2011-07 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The BlockadeCHECKERS.com Instructions Book features games for Solitaire or 2 or 4 Players. Blockade CHECKERS introduces a new concept in gaming to the 8X8 Checkers board. Game pieces are not Captured and removed from the game! 3 Easy to apply concepts make these "No Capture" games possible. The Backward move Option, and the Blockade and Vacate rules make the games interesting, a challenge, and fun! Determine the Winner with Point System Scoring. The Game Book has every example and Illustration needed for playing Blockade CHECKERS games on any Checker board. A section for Single move, Jumping move, 4 Player games, and over 100 simplified examples with Illustrations that have Arrows are in the book. The complete 128 page book makes learning how to play Fun and Easy! Full sets of Tounament grade Rules with Illustrated definitions are provided, game theory and playability variations are featured, Foul and Scoring procedures complete the book! Nothing is left to the imagination! Try some of the BLOCKADE Checkers games and Options on your game board during a 30 Day Trial Period! Most of the familiar Checker Board games operate through the standard war mechanisms of attack and capture. After a few captures the games can become less competitive and one sided. Instead, Blockade CHECKERS focuses on strategy and maneuvering skills. There are No Captures. To Win a game of Blockade CHECKERS apply strategies that control an opponent's ability to maneuver and position game pieces, cause Blockades, and set Vacating Traps. An offensive strategy must also provide good game piece positioning options or else game pieces will not assemble in their VISITORS area effectively! Consistent, efficient and effective game piece positioning and maneuvering techniques are required throughout a game of Blockade CHECKERS that is being played with or without the presence of an opponent's strategy tactics. Maneuvering game pieces from HOME to VISITORS becomes a planning and problem solving strategy puzzle during games with either 2 or 4 players and also during Solitaire games. Tan moves first. A Brown game piece is moved after every move that is made with a Tan game piece. To Win a game of Solitaire complete the occupying of Tan's VISITORS area. The Solitaire game is Won when Brown's VISITORS area is also occupied during Brown's game ending last move. A Solitaire Win is also a Two Player Draw or Tie! Solitaire games and casual 2 player games will not require the "Make a Vacating Move" command and rules.
Download or read book The British Draughts player written by Joseph Gould and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Backgammon For Dummies written by Chris Bray and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-02-14 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive and fun guide to Backgammon! Backgammon is one of the oldest games in the world, the origins of which date back some 5000 years – and it's still going strong. It enjoyed a huge resurgence in the 1970s, and then again in the 1990s with the popularity of the Internet, where millions of people play tournaments online every day. Today, backgammon's following in the UK is huge, with a dedicated British Isles Backgammon Association, and hundreds of face-to-face tournaments taking place across the UK every year. In this book, backgammon expert Chris Bray walks you through the basics of setting up a board, opening strategies, middle and end-game tactics, and tips on when to make key moves. You'll also get to grips with basic probabilities, the doubling cube and the 25% rule. And if you want to take your gaming further, there's plenty of advice to get you started in tournament backgammon, as well as playing online. Suitable for both beginners and experienced player looking for more tips and techniques, Backgammon For Dummies includes coverage on: Starting and Playing the Game Handling the Middle Game Bearing Off (The Last Lap) Varying the Play About the author
Download or read book One Jump Ahead written by Jonathan Schaeffer and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This extraordinary book tells of the creation of the world-class checkers computer program, Chinook. From its beginnings in 1988, Chinook became a worthy opponent to the world champion and by 1992 had defeated all the worlds top human players. In his fascinating account, Jonathan Schaeffer, the originator and leader of the Chinook team, provides an engrossing story of failures and successes. He describes the human story behind Chinook and his own feelings in his continuous effort to improve the programs performance. We follow the development of Chinook from an innocent question asked over lunch, through to the final match against the then world champion, Marion Tinsley. As the story unfolds, readers are introduced to the rules of checkers and the basics of computer game programs, as well as to the key figures in the story. The culmination of this new edition expounds upon checker finally perfected and solved by Chinook ten years after the story was originally told.
