The American Checker Federation

We all know and pretty much despise the "You need to play chess, not checkers" quote and all the ones similar to it. But I may have come across the worst of the worst by a comedian named Demetri Martin, who obviously doesn't know much about checkers and checker players. "I was on the ...

Not so --- I use it from time to time and appreciate it greatly.

Richard Pask and I are pleased to announce the availability of the new hardcover edition of Complete Checkers: Insights. This edition incorporates hundreds of corrections, changes, and additions and was a year in the making. The book is of course available as a free download on the Checker Maven web...

I'm very pleased to say that with today's column (2024-12-07) the Checker Maven webzine completes 20 years of weekly publication. I'm appreciative to everyone who has read and continues to read the column. I plan to carry on as long as health permits. I won't try to guess how long that might be, but...

Quite interesting, here's the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUwMmS2ln8U

I think some hard cover editions would be most welcomed in the future :). I've started on them. As it requires complete reformatting of both books, it is going to take about a year as I can't work on it full time. But hopefully I will succeed and it will be worth it. Of course they will be more exp...

I am showing the UK editions as updated when I look on amazon.co.uk using a UK shipping address. It may be listed as "unavailable" due to your being in Ireland. You would have to ask Amazon about it. This is odd as there have been sales in Ireland of the first edition.

The 2nd editions of Richard Pask's monumental works, Complete Checkers: Insights and Complete Checkers: Repertoire are now available for free download on the Richard Pask page at checkermaven.com. The books are also available in print editions at amazon.com, amazon.co.uk, etc. There really isn't a n...

Wow, an enormous and breathtaking collection of items, some of which look pretty rare. Of course they are priced at collector's prices and maybe are not for the average Joe Checkerist.

Fortunately you can still access most of the checkerworld.com content from 2003 to about 2014 with the internet wayback machine on archive.org/web. I found Al's eclectic and detailed content to be both instructive and inspirational. I once had a copy of his Straight Checkers Gold and it reflected Al...

It's reproduced in this book

https://www.amazon.com/Checkers-Exhaust ... 1332418740

but I don't find an original source as requested.

Has anyone looked at lidraughts.org? It's based on the lichess code base and is extremely good and rather popular. It has quite a few variants but alas, only flying kings. I asked about "straight" checkers and they weren't especially interested. But the source code is freely available. It ...

The OMOCH exhibit is still available although it takes a little digging to find:

https://jaybump.tripod.com/id65.html

Also information about this tour can be found in a large book on my Checker Maven site:

https://www.bobnewell.net/filez/whyplaydraughts.pdf

I should have typed CC:R instead of CC:I!

Interesting too that Richard Pask's CC:I doesn't mention it either. Just for fun I ran out the KingsRow opening book on this: 1. 11-15 23-19 2. 8-11 22-17 3. 15-18 19-15 4. 10x19 24x8 5. 4x11 28-24 6. 12-16 24-20 7. 6-10 17-14 8. 10x17 21x14 9. 11-15 20x11 10. 7x16 * 9. 11-15 is the last "book&...