The American Checker Federation

http://www.carlisleandson.com/Obituarie ... fault.aspx

My thoughts and prayers are with you and your family Pal.

May your mother rest in peace.

Best wishes and God bless.

Alan, I am so sorry to hear about the loss of your mother, you and your family are in my thoughts and prayers.

Thank you Eric all of your hard work is greatly appreciated.

Eric is a fine checker player across the board, both 3 move and GAYP. I have never played a blitz or on line game with him, only crossboard. He is the current Colorado state champ and certainly deserves the title. I do not wish to see him leave the game. I think he has many good ideas that at least ...

Hi Tommy, You should be getting your £1,500 any time now.

Good luck,
Bob

Thank you Tommy and Pal for the happy birthday wishes to me and my wife Tanna.

Thank you JR, this is a great article. You do a fantastic service for Checker players.

John, I would be interested in getting a copy.

Interesting interview with Richard Fortman by Brian Hinkle

http://www.checkerworld.com/interview.html

I am deeply saddened as is the entire Checker community. I will certainly miss his very interesting articles and games analysis and annotations.

Rest in peace Richard, we will miss you.

Congratulations to Neil, Pal and Alex!!! Very well done.

Congratulations to Alex on winning and to Tim for providing the world class competition. Thanks to JR Smith for his hard work in promoting and refereeing this match and for his researching the history of 11 man ballot.

Congratulations to Teal, a fine champion.

Some pictures of John Cardie directing checker tournaments at school. http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z196/murrr1/Cardie1.jpg http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z196/murrr1/Cardie2.jpg http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z196/murrr1/Cardie3.jpg http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z196/murrr1/Cardie...

Yes, John is a very special person and a great friend too.
He has been conducting checker tournaments in the elementary schools in the Denver, CO area, I will post some pictures when I get the time to scan them.

John Cardie wos on the radio, here is a link to the interview.

http://krccnews.org/rmcr/2008/05/13/checkers/