Double Corner on the wrong side

[Danny_Alvarez]

i enjoyed this thread, keep us posted if they do fix it

D. Alvarez

[Pedro Saavedra]

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 wrong side.

I brought it to the attention of the ranger, and his answer was, "Well, we don't mind that because it's only the kids who use it." I said that it was all the more reason why they should take care to set it up correctly, so the children would learn to play the right way.

"Well, we could set it one way and it would soon be switched to a different way." I asked permission to set it right, which he gave me, saying that it was meant to be used, so I had as much right to set it any way I wanted as anybody else. Well, I set it the right way, but left with a sigh, bemoaning the lost opportunity because the people who run the exhibit do not know or care about checkers.

Pedro

[john reade]

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.

[Pedro Saavedra]

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 situation passed the time. The bargemen and lock keepers in the C & O Canal in the 19th century played only Anglo-American Draughts. That is what the exhibit was supposed to show, and they got it wrong.

Pedro