Play Winning Checkers

Play Winning Checkers

Author: Robert W. Pike

Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780806937946

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Learn the skills and strategies to play the game of checkers like a champion.


Chess Not Checkers

Chess Not Checkers

Author: Mark Miller

Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Published: 2015-04-06

Total Pages: 145

ISBN-13: 1626563950

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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!


Win at Checkers

Win at Checkers

Author: Millard Hopper

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2012-04-30

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 0486137279

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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.


The History of Checkers (Draughts)

The History of Checkers (Draughts)

Author: Govert Westerveld

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2013-06-26

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13: 1291667326

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The modern game of chess started around 1475 in Spain when the queen and bishop got a much more powerful move. It was called ""Mad Queen Chess."" These new rules quickly spread throughout western Europe and in Spain. The enhanced move for the chess queen started after the coronation of the powerfull queen of Spain Isabella I. The historical records duly note that Queen Isabella I was crowned with the sword of justice raised in front of her, and the sceptre and throne were given to her. This allusion to the real-world event is so clear within the Scachs d'Amor poem to Isabella's actual coronation that the inspiration of Queen Isabella for the new chess queen and powerfull dama of the draughts game is unquestionable. The Spaniards like the Moors, played a game on the board of lines and called it alquerque. The game became modern draughts through being transferred to the chessboard around that time. This book is the result of at least 30 years investigations in the Spanish archives


One Jump Ahead

One Jump Ahead

Author: Jonathan Schaeffer

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2008-12-16

Total Pages: 571

ISBN-13: 038776576X

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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.


Checkers for the Novice

Checkers for the Novice

Author: Richard Pask

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2018-06-11

Total Pages: 170

ISBN-13: 9781986847070

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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.


Complete Checkers

Complete Checkers

Author: Richard Pask

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2017-01-27

Total Pages: 734

ISBN-13: 9781542464369

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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.


Fact-Checking the Fact-Checkers

Fact-Checking the Fact-Checkers

Author: Matt Palumbo

Publisher: Liberatio Protocol

Published: 2023-07-18

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 1637588216

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Who fact-checks the fact-checkers? An industry that started in the 1990s by fact-checking chain emails and Bigfoot sightings has evolved over the past decade into the American political left’s strongest tool in justifying the censorship of their political opposition and shaping the national narrative in their favor. There may have been a brief era where the fact-checkers fact-checked facts—now they fact-check reality itself.