The American Checker Federation

W. Campbell was often called the Blindfold Champion. This is his first blindfold match, against D. McKelvie. Both players won one game, for a draw. [Event "blindfold g.2"] [Date "1888"] [Black "W. Campbell"] [White "D. McKelvie"] [Result "1/2-1/2"] 9...

1890 New Zealand. Since this tournament was called the Australasian Tournament, I am moving it to the forum pages for tournaments of that name (viewtopic.php?f=4&t=4613&p=33830#top).

I think these games came from videos on YouTube. There are more, with some of the players unidentified. I will add those games when I have identified the players.

[Event "Barbados Open 2024"] [Date "2024"] [Black "Trevor Howell"] [White "Jack Francis"] [Result "1/2-1/2"] 1. 11-15 22-17 2. 8-11 17-14 3. 9x18 23x14 4. 10x17 21x14 5. 4-8 26-23 6. 6-10 25-21 7. 10x17 21x14 8. 1-6 29-25 9. 6-10 25-21 10. 10x17 21x1...

[Event "Barbados National Ty. 2023"] [Date "2023"] [Black "Winston Lowe"] [White "Julian Burgess"] [Result "0-1"] 1. 11-15 22-17 2. 8-11 17-13 3. 11-16 25-22 4. 9-14 24-19 5. 15x24 28x19 6. 4-8 22-18 7. 8-11 18x9 8. 5x14 29-25 9. 16-20 25-22 10. 11-1...

[Event "Barbados Open 2022"] [Date "2022"] [Black "Kent Layne"] [White "Ron King"] [Result "0-1"] 1. 11-15 23-19 2. 7-11 22-17 3. 11-16 25-22 4. 16x23 27x11 5. 8x15 17-13 6. 12-16 24-20 7. 16-19 20-16 8. 9-14 16-12 9. 4-8 22-17 10. 8-11 29-25 11. 11-...

The I-D Mail Tournaments were the national championships of mail-play. Here are the champions. 1973, Dan Vestal, Ft. Worth, TX (district 10) 1974, Marvin Rex, Akron, OH (dist. 6) 1975, John Caldwell, San Antonio, TX (dist. 6) 1976, Dan Vestal, Ft. Worth, TX (dist. 10) 1977, Jack Zvorak, Gladstone, M...

[Event "Fax match 1991, game 1"] [Date "1991"] [Black "Loy, J."] [White "Chinook"] [Result "0-2"] 1. 10-14 23-19 2. 11-16 19-15 3. 16-20 26-23 4. 12-16 15-10 5. 06x15 24-19 6. 15x24 28x12 7. 07-10 22-17 8. 09-13 30-26 9. 13x22 25x09 10. 05x14 26-22 1...

These games seem to have not been published in the ACF Bulletin. [Event "U.S. National 1992"] [Date "1992"] [Black "Chinook"] [White "Cravens, H."] [Result "0-1"] 12-16 22-18 16-19 24-15 10-19 23-16 11-20 21-17 8-11 26-23 9-13 17-14 13-17 31-26 6-10 ...

Played in Australia. Wyllie won a rematch, later the same year. I have recently added game four, to complete the 20 game match.

[Event "Match g.1"] [Date "1890"] [Black "J. Wyllie"] [White "R. Mar"] [Result "0-1"] 9-13 22-18 12-16 24-20 8-12 27-24 10-15 24-19 15-22 25-18 7-10 26-22 5-9 29-25 10-15 19-10 6-15 21-17 3-7 32-27 16-19 23-16 12-19 30-26 7-10 17-14 10-17 25-21 1-5 2...

One game of this match is in the OCA2 archive. The match was to be of eight games, but Searight resigned after seven games. He could have drawn the match by winning the White side of the Cross in the eighth game.

[Event "Glasgow match"] [Date "1893"] [Black "Beattie, W."] [White "Searight, J."] [Result "1/2-1/2"] 9-14 24-19 11-15 22-18 15-22 25-9 5-14 29-25 8-11 25-22 11-15 27-24 7-11 24-20 15-24 28-19 11-15 32-28 15-24 28-19 4-8 22-17 8-11 19-16 12-19 23-7 2...

[Event "New Zealand Ty."] [Date "1922"] [Black "Hutchins, F."] [White "Rea, T."] [Result "1/2-1/2"] 10-14 24-20 7-10 22-18 11-16 20-11 8-22 25-18 9-13 18-9 5-14 29-25 4-8 25-22 2-7 22-18 14-17 21-14 10-17 26-22 17-26 31-22 7-10 28-24 8-11 24-20 10-15...

I have posted a lot of tournaments and matches, recently. Some of them seem to be duplicates of earlier postings. Sorry about that. I sometimes forget to search this forum. I plan to go through Gould's Memorable Matches, and post the matches that are not in the OCA2 archive (http://www.fierz.ch/down...