The American Checker Federation

Congratulations to Vadym Lapin, Alex Moiseyev, and Matthew Clark for a tie for 1st place in The 2025 Pop Top “GAYP” Open Checker Championship Tournament. Congratulations to Teal Stanley for 4th place in a competitive field of "pop" top checkerists!

--George Hay

Mr. Checkercycle has a YouTube video CHAMPIONS OF THE PAST...CHECKERS AND DRAUGHTS featuring Newell W. Banks vs. Christy Mathewson.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=up9sw9dN0Yw

The 31 May 1943 issue of Time featured Willie Ryan and mentiond Millard Hopper. https://time.com/archive/6789223/sport-damas-followers/ Willie Ryan was a great promoter of checkers. Willie Ryan challenged Champion Walter Helman for the 3-Move Checkers World Championship in 1949. Willle Ryan battled ...

The 29 January 1940 issue of Time featured Millard Hopper as the go-as-you-please checker champion. https://time.com/archive/6893006/sport-go-as-you-please/ The article foreshadows the legendary 1951 GAYP World Championship. Millard Hopper, the recognized champion, was challenged by Tom Wiswell to a...

Congratulations to Jim Morrison for winning the Masters Division of the 2025 Tennessee Open Tournament with 21 points. Congratulations to Alex Holmes for 2nd Place in the Masters Division of the Tennessee Open with 20 points. Congratulations to John Webster for 3rd Place in the Masters Division of t...

Congratulations to the Co-Champions tied for First Place in the Florida Open 2025, Rich Beckwith and Vadym Lapin with 16 points each. Congratulations to Mark Sokolovsky for taking Third Place with 14 points.

--George Hay

The current edition of The Checker Maven, Ken Lovell 01/18/25, https://www.bobnewell.net/nucleus/checkers.php has an interview with Ken Lovell the author of DRAUGHTS BOOKS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY . There is also a link to the free (free!) e-book in the article. The book picks up where W. T. Call's ...

The results for The Unofficial World Championship Checker Problem Composing Contest 77 are in, and congratulations to Bill Salot for the winning composition Thin Ice with 4 votes. There was a three way tie for second place, with Pathways by the late Ed Atkinson, Big Bang Theory by the late Roy Littl...

20 years of THE CHECKER MAVEN webzine on the World Wide Web with a weekly feature is indeed a remarkable accomplishment! Editor-in-Chief Bob Newell has presented the checkers community with a variety of news items, interviews, mystery stories, the Detroit Doublejumpers, and the Beacon Cafe. And of c...

Igor, thank you for your "report" on the 2024 Korback Checkers Festival. Even coming back from an accident, you didn't do too bad, as you broke even with 16 points in 8 rounds against the best of the best! The attached WCDF minutes had an interesting item: 3. The official time limit was ch...

The Unofficial World Championship Checker Problem Composing Contest 77 hosted by The Checker Maven is now underway! https://www.bobnewell.net/nucleus/ Contest 77 is the last of Bill Salot's Checker Problem Contests. Contest 77 contains four polished gems you do not want to miss! And don't forget to...

45 years and Comlpete Checkers: Complete Checkers: Insights https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Checkers-Insights-Richard-Pask/dp/B09KN7Z1L7/ref=sr_1_4?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.Nlpf-2cp_fOGA1eWdYZhedTqOdw2yOx-G5Q8ZNY-Ps0skyYcjAwMXXKxOsbTaCU08yBDXV6Q48HPCLtHvfV4PczgDJkShQ5DpGR2YvCMz18MaqgS01qWGTfjcdoV4JTDhPDS3J8...

ticolensic, thank you for posting the historic checkers books on archive.org, and welcome to the ACF Forum!

--George Hay

One of my favorite podcasts is the rare Daily Wire Backstage. The latest edition is the 2024 VP Debate/Daily Wire Backstage with Ben Shapiro, Michael Knowles, Andrew Klavan, Matt Walsh, and Jeremy Boring. This podcast takes place right after the J.D. Vance vs. Tim Walz VP Debate that happened to tak...

In Thomas Paine by Craig Nelson (Penguin Books), Thomas Paine plays checkers in London, circa 1792. On page 222 Nelson quotes Paine's friend and early biographer Thomas "Clio" Rickman: Mr. Paine's life in London was a quiet round of philosophical leisure and enjoyment....At this time he re...