The American Checker Federation

Could someone involved in the planning post details about the dates, number of rounds, and the schedule for the GAYP tourney? The deadline for reserving a room is a week from Monday. It's clear from the announcement on JR's website that Masters will be playing 12 rounds over five days August 5-9. Bu...

I am looking for a ride from the Springfield airport late on Monday afternoon or evening. My flight arrives at 4:20. If anyone is passing through on the way to Branson around that time, please let me know. I can chip in for gas. Alex, when I saw your message, I assumed that William would be driving ...

Excellent! My games against myself are much more competitive now. My original 11 red pieces thank you for your help.

When I read Michael's question it prompted me to think, What would one-move restriction checkers look like if the move chosen at random were White's first move? So Red would open with a free choice knowing how White must respond. You would need a rule that Red couldn't move to 14 if 21-17 is drawn a...

Follow that 15x24 with 30-25 !

Does anyone going to Vidor have a set of checkers like these and have extras? One of my red pieces went missing a few years ago. I figured I'd eventually find it but haven't had any luck. (That's why I can only go to 11-man tournaments.) I bought mine from Don Goodwin back in the 90s. They are the s...

Ah, good. Thanks for clarifying this. I like your suggested procedure. If the ballot leads to one side being a piece down, either from the drawn moves (as in my example) or by force (as in your example), or if both players agree to reject the opening, the players start the drawing process over from ...

In the context of a championship match I think both players would be motivated to reject ballots that are outright losses. The downside of both players needing to agree in the context of a tournament is that a weaker player might view a lopsided opening as the best chance to earn points against a mu...

I left that open, without specific places to put names and scores, because I figured people might write it in different ways. If this format were being used at a tournament, it would be helpful to the referee to see "Smith 3 Jones 1" to know how to record the score without having to look d...

Hi all, I've had mixed feelings over the years about the sheets that we use to record games at tournaments. I decided last spring that I would like to design my own for my personal use, and I finally got around to doing it yesterday. I like the way it turned out and wanted to share it in case others...

This one came up about a month ago in a game that I lost to Kingsrow. I like endgame positions such as this one with six to eight pieces on the board that may look really simple at first glance but that illustrate a combination of principles after digging a little deeper. Black to play, White to win...

I also would like to see more games at a variety of levels posted here. Does anyone know what happens to games that are turned in at GAYP nationals on odd-numbered years? It seems that they are collected the same way as in 3-move years but I never recall seeing them published. Obviously there are mo...

I'm disappointed in you, Jim. You obviously haven't kept up with the ACF's decision to adopt four-but-not-necessarily-alternating-move restriction as the officially sanctioned version of checkers for even-numbered national tourneys 8) And we have this gem: Alex Weaver - Alan Millhone, round 6 10-15 ...

It's funny because I was looking at this endgame diagram of the game between Alex and Joe thinking that I should remember this theme in case it ever comes up in a game. And then last week, after a midgame slip-up, I ended up in this position as Red to move: http://fmjd.org/dias2/save/15378262337.png...

Thanks, Alex. That makes sense. If I'm going to get punched, be prepared for one of the two places I'll probably get hit after 11-15 instead of opening myself up to pretty much anything.