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Unofficial World Championship Checker Problem Composing Contest 58 Results – Kingless Strokes It was an upset! In a battle of kingless strokes, a Compound Stroke took 1st place over usually favored Deferred Strokes. The winner with 7 votes was Triangle Theory by Ed Atkinson. Gary Ellison, George Hay...

Is "Binomial" ready to challenge "KingsRow" to a match?

Unofficial World Championship Checker Problem Composing Contest Number 57 Results have been posted at Bob Newell's Web Site: http://www.bobnewell.net/nucleus/checkers.php, along with the updated International Voters' Ladder Standings, and a retirement announcement. The following web site is no longe...

Problem Composing Contest 57 is underway at Bob Newell's web site, http://www.bobnewell.net/nucleus/checkers.php

It is NOT at the following web site:

Out-of-sight . . . out-of-mind! Please visit Unofficial World Championship Problem Composing Contest 56 at Bob Newell's "Checker Maven" web site: http://www.bobnewell.net/nucleus/checkers.php. The link direct to the current contest is: http://contests.checkermaven.com/ It features Slocum S...

All, The interrupted contests resumed today. The Contest 56 can be seen at a different, but familiar web site. Bob Newell did a lot of work to set it up in record time. Here is the link to the new animated problems and associated voting booth and voters’ ladder: contests.checkermaven.com. Any public...

Contest 55, like the preceding one, featured four pure, quadruple jump, strokes. Funhouse was by Ed Atkinson. Tread Lightly was by Roy Little. Picturesque Picture was by Leo Springer. Two x Four was by Bill Salot. THIS CONTEST IS HEREBY DECLARED “NO CONTEST” because the vote counter stopped counting...

As you probably know, the animations and the archives on the problem contest web site are not working. You can still review the current contest problems via their printed solutions, and then I believe you can still vote for the one you think best. The polls will close at midnight EST February 28, le...

Contest 55 is underway. For the 3rd contest in a row, animated fireworks are on display. All four settings are original, unpublished, and have similar starts, similar styles and all-star solutions to similar wins. The composers are all multiple past winners. If you can solve one, you can solve them ...

The contest themes in 2020 were: 1 - Kingless Kapers, 2 - 3x3s, 3 - Starry Wins, 4 - Zugzwangs, 5 - An Unfamiliar Maneuver, and 6 - Quadruples into Spread Eagles. Roy Little and Mark Sokolovsky were each double winners, making them Co-Problemists of the Year. It was Roy’s 5th such title and Mark’s 1...

The quartet of problems in Contest 54 were so well matched that one voter called it a 4-way dead heat. All 4 entries were original, previously unpublished, piece-up settings that required 5 sacrifices to set up a quadruple jump into a piece down spread eagle win. But the voters managed to separate t...

It is underway. This quartet of contest entries houses a bunch of commonalities: five White sacrifices leading to equivalent sweeps and into equivalent finishes, all piece-up wins, all different, all original, all unpublished, all tough, all by long-time composers, including the defending champion c...

It is underway. This quartet of contest entries houses a bunch of commonalities: five White sacrifices leading to equivalent sweeps and into equivalent finishes, all piece-up wins, all different, all original, all unpublished, all tough, all by long-time composers, including the defending champion c...

Rich,

If it has not been previously published, why not enter it in a problem composing contest to see how special it really is?

The “Unfamiliar Maneuver” featured in this contest might be called the “*32 27 Unforced Double Corner Block Release”. A Red man in the Double Corner Dog Hole on Square 28 is blocked by a White man on Square 32. Then White Wins by making the dumbest-appearing, star move ever, deliberately releasing t...