"An Expensive Dental Bill"--answer

[Mr. Checkers]

During a visit to the dentist back in the fall of 1978 Mr. Checkers was thumbing through the ads in the back of a magazine while waiting in the lobby. One of those ads caught his attention because it mentioned the word "checkers". He last major encounter with checkers occured during his grade school days. He always remembered it as a game that he thoroughly enjoyed playing as a youth. So he answered the ad, received the product, which was accompanied by an application to the ACF. He wrote to them and they told him that you had to be good at checkers and well read to join. He had only played childrens checkers and he did not know that there was any such thing as a checker book--to him it was a game one learned on the playground. So they sent him the book listing from Tom Wiswell and Clayton Beebe. The first book that he purchased was a Lees' Guide from Tom Wiswell. So from that visit to the dentist and the answering of that ad in a magazine the rest is all now part of checker history--"Checker Book World", the John Caldwell-Irving Windt Library of Checkers and the World of Checkers Museum. "Checker Trivia question of the Day". What captivated his interest in that ad in the magazine? (Cont.)

[Mr. Checkers]

The advertisement was for "Checker Challenger II"--5 levels of play. (Cont.)