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.


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.


Chess for Kids

Chess for Kids

Author: Richard James

Publisher: Hachette UK

Published: 2012-08-30

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13: 0716023369

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This is the perfect introduction to chess for children from the age of seven upwards. The book contains 30 short lessons, starting with learning about the board and the pieces, then the moves of each piece in turn, then the vital concepts of check, checkmate and stalemate, and finally basic strategy and thinking skills. Quizzes and puzzles reinforce what the children learn. The book uses the characters of the 7-year-old twins Sam and Alice who are always arguing and fighting. They decide to join the army where they are told about an impending invasion of aliens from the planet Caïssa. The outcome of the invasion will be decided by a game of living chess. During their lessons they learn about the battlefield and the different types of soldier and get to play the part of each in turn.


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.


For Kids of All Ages

For Kids of All Ages

Author: Peter Keough

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2019-11-27

Total Pages: 291

ISBN-13: 1538128594

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In For Kids of All Ages,members of the National Society of Film Critics celebrate the wonder of childhood in cinema. In this volume, original essays commissioned especially for this collection stand alongside classic reviews from prominent film critics like Jay Carr and Roger Ebert. Each of the ten sections in this collection takes on a particular aspect of children’s cinema, from animated features to adaptations of beloved novels. The films discussed here range from the early 1890s to the present. The contributors draw on personal connections that make their insights more trenchant and compelling. The essays and reviews in For Kids of All Ages are not just a list of recommendations—though plenty are included—but an illuminating, often personal study of children’s movies, children in movies, and the childish wonder that is the essence of film. Contributors include John Anderson, Sheila Benson, Jay Carr, Justin Chang, Godfrey Cheshire, Morris Dickstein, Roger Ebert, David Fear, Robert Horton, J. R. Jones, Peter Keough, Andy Klein, Nathan Lee, Emanuel Levy, Gerald Peary, Mary Pols, Peter Rainer, Carrie Rickey, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Michael Sragow, David Sterritt, Charles Taylor, Peter Travers, Kenneth Turan, James Verniere, Michael Wilmington, and Stephanie Zacharek.


Working Mother

Working Mother

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1999-06

Total Pages: 110

ISBN-13:

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The magazine that helps career moms balance their personal and professional lives.


The Little Giant Encyclopedia of Checker Puzzles

The Little Giant Encyclopedia of Checker Puzzles

Author: Robert W. Pike

Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 516

ISBN-13: 9780806979755

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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. "


Personal Best

Personal Best

Author: Joe Tye

Publisher: M J F Books

Published: 2000-03

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 9781567313499

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