The American Checker Federation

Pedro, You should bear in mind that both Italian draughts and Spanish draughts have the double corner on the left. As far as they are concerned we are the ones who have the board the wrong way round! John. Yes, but the instances I have mentioned are exhibits regarding how Americans in a particular ...

I seem to be obsessed with this issue in museums and public settings. Today I visited the small Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Museum at Great Falls, Maryland. They had a checker set to illustrate the fact that the bargemen and lockmasters often played checkers. And they had the double corner on the wron...

I thought ACF had made Gold Token the official ACF online server. Now, GT is primarily turn-based (which is my preferred mode) but it also has Head-to-Head. It has an ACF club and a number of very good players. It also has several other active checker clubs and a large number of versions (Pool, Inte...

In spite of my sadness I had one good laugh when I read the obituary a second time. I recall that around 1970 Rick had two cats named Capablanca and Botwinnik. He only played chess back then. His first wife won custody of the cats and renamed them, The obituary listed a cat among his survivors. The ...

Many of us believed Rick Callaghan had died when he stopped playing in various servers and his Idaho number was not answered. One person even claimed to have been told of his death when they called his number. This was incorrect. Rick's obituary just appeared in the Charlottesville Progress. http://...

Those who know me know what I am going to say. There are two styles of online play -- live (as at Kurnik or Yahoo) and turn-based (as in It's Your Turn or Gold Token). Likewise there are two styles of offline play: crossboard and mail play. Finally, there are variants based on time per move. I merel...

No, there shouldn't be any discussions at all. We have to promote our form of game, we don't promote other mind games - GO, Bridge, Chess or other forms of draughts. You speak as an ACF member, but how should an educator speak? Should not the educator be concerned about the cultural traditions of t...

Kim, I think this is great. Many years ago I was interested in promoting chess in the schools and had extensive discussions with other educators and chess promoters (I was both, having directed the Virginia Intescholastic Chess tourney among others and received my dictorate in Educational Psychology...

My wife and I send our deepest condolences, Alan.

Pedro

International Chess Grandmaster Larry Evans died. He co-authored with Tom Wiswell a book on chess and checkers and was Fischer's second on the road to the summit (but not in Iceland). I played him in a simul about 48-49 years ago (I lost). Given his co-authorship, and his having played at the New Yo...

I wonder if that set was inspired by the checkers game in the movie Our Man in Havana?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHDC-UF5kGY

Pedro

.As far as I know, this is a complete list of 8x8 checkers books available online (please reply to this post with additions): As you do not qualify your post with requiring that it be PDN, there are zillions of other books. You will find many of Pask's books in Bob Newell's site. And you will find ...

Thanks to Palomino for his help. Here is the picture:



Pedro

The picture is not on their website. It was taken by my friend and scanned and then e-mailed to me (along with a dozen other pictures). I deleted the others and have an e-mail reasy to go.

Pedro

I cannot figure out how to copy the picture here, but if somebody sends me an e-mail at psaavedr@hotmail.com, I will send him the picture.

Pedro