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by williamdocherty
Sat Oct 19, 2024 12:44 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Pretty Transposition!
Replies: 1
Views: 68

Re: Pretty Transposition!

Yes nice transposition Richard!
I'm now looking forward to winning some Cross games :-)

By the way I PM'd you on an Edinburgh variation earlier today

Best regards
wd
by williamdocherty
Wed Nov 01, 2023 9:46 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: My new Youtube Channel from Beginners to others!
Replies: 1
Views: 475

My new Youtube Channel from Beginners to others!

Good afternoon everyone, A quick post to inform you that I've set up a new Youtube channel dedicated to checkers & draughts. This will be a compliment to what is already being done by quite a few of us, and I'll be making references to these other fantastic channels and videos on a regular basis...
by williamdocherty
Sun Jul 23, 2023 12:39 am
Forum: Games
Topic: OCA2 archive
Replies: 1
Views: 350

Re: OCA2 archive

Hi Jim, I was using this until recently with the 22 000 or so games in checkerboard to search positions. Thanks to your fantastic work here on the forum of posting many tournement games & books in PDN which are not to be tound in the original OCA, and other additions of my own, I now have around...
by williamdocherty
Mon May 10, 2021 12:31 pm
Forum: Tournament Discussion
Topic: The 2021 Illustrious checke ty
Replies: 13
Views: 1262

Re: The 2021 Illustrious checke ty

Good evening Jim Danny and I are extremley pleased to announce that the Zoom 3 move Int. Ty that we are organizing and running right now is going extremely well. There have been absolutely no issues with cheating, and only a few minor problems with getting fixtures set up and a few connection proble...
by williamdocherty
Wed Apr 14, 2021 1:43 pm
Forum: Positions
Topic: Calculating lines
Replies: 1
Views: 489

Calculating lines

It’s been a bit too quiet on this topic recently, so I’d like to humbly post ‘a position’… There are numerous games in Grand Master play, Master Play and Expert Play where the player has been faced with THE BIG problem ; 2 ways seem to win ! …(or draw). Many times to the dismay of the attacker, the ...
by williamdocherty
Mon Feb 01, 2021 4:14 pm
Forum: Tournament Discussion
Topic: The 2021 Illustrious checke ty
Replies: 13
Views: 1262

Re: The 2021 Illustrious checke ty

Yes Kent, this ty will be WCDF rated.
Payment details will be sent out later, but the payment will be made via bank transfer for example to the SDA (D. Oliphant , president of the SDA) account
by williamdocherty
Mon Feb 01, 2021 2:47 pm
Forum: Tournament Discussion
Topic: The 2021 Illustrious checke ty
Replies: 13
Views: 1262

Re: The 2021 Illustrious checke ty

Good evening Checker players

The 2021 SDA/WCDF international ty will be starting at the beginning of March.
For all those who wish to participate please send an email to billy.docherty@hotmail.fr

https://esportscommentator.blogspot.com ... ional.html
by williamdocherty
Sun Jan 31, 2021 11:44 am
Forum: Tournament Discussion
Topic: The 2021 Illustrious checke ty
Replies: 13
Views: 1262

Re: The 2021 Illustrious checke ty

By the way I'd like to see in this ty Docherty Sloan Watson Moiseyev Scarpetta Bernini Borghetti Morrison Beckwith King Francis Kondlo Pask McCosker Devlin Garret Owens L. Edwards Shabshai The Durdyev family Martinov SA players, not named US players not named UK players not named Worldwide players n...
by williamdocherty
Sun Jan 31, 2021 11:39 am
Forum: Tournament Discussion
Topic: The 2021 Illustrious checke ty
Replies: 13
Views: 1262

The 2021 Illustrious checke ty

Hi checker friends The SDA & WCDF 2021 Zoom International Checker ty. To all my checker connections, Danny Oliphant and myself will be organizing this international ty. Which shall be played via Zoom platform. This post is to inform you all of the intention, and obtain feedback on your eventual ...
by williamdocherty
Sun Jan 24, 2021 3:33 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: D Oldbury v Chinook 13th April 1990
Replies: 2
Views: 380

Re: D Oldbury v Chinook 13th April 1990

Hi Richard

Did you get the message I sent you via Messenger ?

William
by williamdocherty
Sat Apr 04, 2020 9:33 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: OGA
Replies: 0
Views: 416

OGA

I hope everyone is keeping safe, and making the most of this unique situation to put in some checker study!! One question arose, and I hope someone can answer here: When was the last update of the OGA that was to be found in transcripts in the ACF website? I have one with approx.22675 games...does a...
by williamdocherty
Sun Dec 01, 2019 2:38 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Books for sale
Replies: 1
Views: 1942

Re: Books for sale

...or email me at billy.docherty@hotmail.fr or call me on my cellphone 0033644305127
by williamdocherty
Sun Dec 01, 2019 2:37 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Books for sale
Replies: 1
Views: 1942

Books for sale

Hi there my checker playing friends! After much though, I've finally decided to sell a large part of my checker library. Some of the 'star books' in that list is ABC, WCC, Oldbury's ency Hardback, 19th AT, BLC etc. For those interested, I'll be selling the complete set which amounts to over 50 books...
by williamdocherty
Sat Jan 12, 2019 9:56 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: DAVE HARWOOD
Replies: 1
Views: 1652

DAVE HARWOOD

Hi

I need to contact Dave Harwood. Does anyone have his email or phone number?
Best regards
William
by williamdocherty
Mon Dec 03, 2018 12:09 pm
Forum: Positions
Topic: Nice hidden shot
Replies: 5
Views: 5722

Re: Nice hidden shot

Hi Richard I hope you're keeping well, and Xmas preps are not getting the best of you! The problem is given in The hand of DEO, prob. number 82. I hope we'll get the chance to meet up in 2019 at a checkers event in the UK or elsewhere ; last time (& first actually) we 'bumped' into each other wa...