Winning a game without moving a checker

[EdTrice]

Recently I had the opportunity to win the following wager. I made this bet:

I can play an entire game without moving a checker, allowing my opponent to finish the game with all kings while I had none, and still have a position any master will agree is a draw at the end.

Let's see who can solve this riddle.

[Mr. Checkers]

Ed being a creator of checker trivia I must ask if we are to assume that you are playing a normal game of checkers or are playing checkers at all? Your question does not say. There are many other games played on a checkerboard as you well know.

[EdTrice]

Yes, a real game of checkers is played, all moves being legal, and plausible, and any checkers master would find each move by both players perfectly acceptable.

[Ingo_Zachos]

Did you play protest checkers (if it exists, but protest chess does, so why not...) ?
In which other kind of checkers can you skip a move ?

Greeinx from sunny, but rainy Dortmund, Germany

Ingo Zachos

[Mr. Checkers]

"each move by both players"--your question states that you were not making any moves, so which is it?

[EdTrice]

Did you play protest checkers (if it exists, but protest chess does, so why not...) ?
In which other kind of checkers can you skip a move ?

Greeinx from sunny, but rainy Dortmund, Germany

Ingo Zachos

Nope, this was not protest checkers, just regular old 8x8 checkers.

[EdTrice]

"each move by both players"--your question states that you were not making any moves, so which is it?

My question was posed the following way:

I can play an entire game without moving a checker, allowing my opponent to finish the game with all kings while I had none, and still have a position any master will agree is a draw at the end.

...and I was able to do everything stated above, as it was stated, thereby winning the bet.

It is a bit of a "thinking puzzle"

P.S. I have also won bets in bars where I claim I can finish 3 full mugs of beer before my opponent can drink a shot. It's all in the wording, then the execution of the wording... so there is your hint!

[EdTrice]

From the starting position in the game of checkers, play:

1. 11-15 23-18
2. 8-11 27-23
3. 4-8 23-19
4. 9-14 18x9
5. 5x14 22-17
6. 15-18 26-22
7. 11-15 17-13
8. 7-11 13-9
9. 6x13 24-20
10. 15x24 22x15x6
11. 1x10 28x19
12. 14-18 31-26
13. 3-7 26-22
14. 10-14 22x15
15. 11x18 32-27
16. 7-10 30-26
17. 8-11 20-16
18. 11x20 26-22
19. 2-6 22x15
20. 12-16 19x12
21. 10x19 12-8
22. 6-9 25-22
23. 19-23 27x18
24. 14x23 8-4
25. 23-26 4-8
26. 9-14 8-11
27. 26-30 11-15
28. 20-24 15-10
29. 24-27 10x17
30. 30-26 22-18
31. 13x22 21-17
32. 26-23 18-14
33. 27-31 14-9
34. 31-27 9-5
35. 23-18 17-13
36. 22-26 13-9
37. 26-30

...and you will reach this position:



You will be able to verify that:

1. There is a white checker unmoved on square 29.
2. Red has 3 kings and 0 checkers, white has 0 kings and 3 checkers.
3. White to move can draw.

So, white played the entire game without moving a checker, and that checker was on square 29.

Red has "all kings", and white has "all checkers" in the final position, which is a draw.

Furthermore, all of the moves in the game are plausible, i.e. the game was not "contrived".

This satisfies all of the conditions specified in the bet.