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Win at Checkers
| Author | : Millard Hopper |
| Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
| Total Pages | : 146 |
| Release | : 2012-04-30 |
| Genre | : Games & Activities |
| ISBN | : 0486137279 |
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.
Basic Checkers
| Author | : Richard L. Fortman |
| Publisher | : CreateSpace |
| Total Pages | : 504 |
| Release | : 2010-06-01 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781453619698 |
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.
One Jump Ahead
| Author | : Jonathan Schaeffer |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 571 |
| Release | : 2008-12-16 |
| Genre | : Computers |
| ISBN | : 038776576X |
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.
Tricks, Traps and Shots of the Checkerboard
| Author | : William F. Ryan |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 164 |
| Release | : 2011-03 |
| Genre | : Games |
| ISBN | : 9781616460785 |
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.
One Jump Ahead
| Author | : Jonathan Schaeffer |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 511 |
| Release | : 2013-03-09 |
| Genre | : Computers |
| ISBN | : 147572733X |
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.
Checkers for the Novice
| Author | : Richard Pask |
| Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
| Total Pages | : 170 |
| Release | : 2018-06-11 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781986847070 |
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.
William F. Ryan and Tommie Wiswell Present World Championship Checkers
| Author | : William Francis Ryan |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 172 |
| Release | : 1950 |
| Genre | : Checkers |
| ISBN | : |
Games of No Chance
| Author | : Richard J. Nowakowski |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 556 |
| Release | : 1998-11-13 |
| Genre | : Mathematics |
| ISBN | : 9780521646529 |
Is Nine-Men Morris, in the hands of perfect players, a win for white or for black - or a draw? Can king, rook, and knight always defeat king and two knights in chess? What can Go players learn from economists? What are nimbers, tinies, switches and minies? This book deals with combinatorial games, that is, games not involving chance or hidden information. Their study is at once old and young: though some games, such as chess, have been analyzed for centuries, the first full analysis of a nontrivial combinatorial game (Nim) only appeared in 1902. The first part of this book will be accessible to anyone, regardless of background: it contains introductory expositions, reports of unusual tournaments, and a fascinating article by John H. Conway on the possibly everlasting contest between an angel and a devil. For those who want to delve more deeply, the book also contains combinatorial studies of chess and Go; reports on computer advances such as the solution of Nine-Men Morris and Pentominoes; and theoretical approaches to such problems as games with many players. If you have read and enjoyed Martin Gardner, or if you like to learn and analyze new games, this book is for you.
Let's Play Checkers
| Author | : Kenneth M Grover |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 200 |
| Release | : 2016-10-20 |
| Genre | : Games |
| ISBN | : 9784871877473 |
This is regarded as one of the best books for the average player ever written. This modern textbook pays particular attention to the many problems confronting the average player. Besides an extensive game collection that shows the best restrictive lines for Black and White (thus reducing study to a minimum) it includes a new method for studying the Mid-Game. This is an enlightening discussion of the major midgame formations and the art of transportation. Many model three move games as played by America's foremost masters with many new lines of play. (Three move restriction is played by all the experts and is fully explained.) Many brilliant endgame themes every player should know. 100 selected problems by America's foremost composers. Latest revised rules for match and tourney play. And numerous other features of interest to all grades of players. The authors were two of Americas foremost Checkerists. Both won numerous titles and important games during their brilliant and checkered careers. - They start the reader off "at scratch" and with patience and understanding take him along the road that ultimately leads to the goal of practically every checker player - the expert class.
