The American Checker Federation

George Hay, there was something inexplicably odd about a “Checkers for Dummies” book. A disturbing undercurrent within the math-force where the title itself makes absolutely no sense mathematically, even though on the surface there’s no problem with the title at all. Consider the possibility of two ...

George Hay, Jefferson said he added nothing new to the Declaration but his approach was novel and innovative. It was a refinement, rearrangement and restatement of the thoughts of the Revolutionary Collective he was a part of. Euclid himself likely doing the same sort of thing with the geometry that...

George Hay, the title of that book on your wish list is off the mark; an oxymoron that concedes defeat before the opening move. “Checkers for Dummies” makes no sense at all, where “Checkers for Smarties” swiftly and deftly sums it all up, leading the reader into a stellar journey where no idiot’s gu...

Getting back to the idea of number of men and skill level let’s say an old checker-master faces off against a young novice willing and wanting to learn from the master. The master can’t deliberately make mistakes to even up the odds or help the newbie by suggesting moves for his young opponent; that...

chipchap, Can the conjecture be proven to be correct? Certainly, but not with defective historical methodology. Would I like it to be correct? No way! I’m doomed at the get go on this one. Count me among the naysayers for personal survival reasons alone. The first person to prove the true origins, w...

George Hay, the chess versus checkers smartness thing may be more of left brain versus right brain sort of thing. More precisely the l-mode R-Mode idea proposed and used by Betty Edwards of 'Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain' fame. Each game utilizing a different, somewhat opposite way of reaso...

@ George Hay, it's those supporting the idea that Jefferson in some way plagiarized the phrase from some earlier source that are doing the speculating. Jefferson himself shot down those ideas when asked about how he came up with the true Bill of Rights aka the Declaration. Historians are notoriously...

Years ago I stumbled across the curious possibility that Jefferson derived his phrase 'all men are create equal' from Checkers. As you know, then Draughts, where all the 'men on board' are equal at the start of each game. Being trained as a mathematician, as well as a Euclidean to boot (rhymes with ...