American Checker Monthly March/April 1936
Problem No 298 by J. D. Gallagher
Black: 2, 7 and king on 31
White: 5, 9 and 25
Black to play and win
Continue: 7-10 25-21; 10-14 5-1; 31-26 1-6 and now into the famous 1951 Wiswell-Hopper G14 of their WCM.
Nothing new under the sun!
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Richard Pask
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Re: Nothing new under the sun!
Richard Pask, good catch!...The play after the above moves brings us to note "I" of game 14 in Checker Kings In Action.
https://ia600301.us.archive.org/29/item ... 338mbp.pdf
"Nothing new under the sun!" or perhaps "Everything old is new again!"
--George Hay
https://ia600301.us.archive.org/29/item ... 338mbp.pdf
"Nothing new under the sun!" or perhaps "Everything old is new again!"
--George Hay
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George Hay
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Re: Nothing new under the sun!
I went back to the above pdf file link for further study, only to discover several pages missing! Page 73 should have had the last few notes to game 14, but it was blank!
For a more complete view of Checker Kings In Action, that book page on Archive.org fills in the gaps:
https://archive.org/details/checkerking ... p/mode/2up
The diagram on the title page is to game 14, and reappears as diagram 6. "Problemist's Problem."
--George Hay
For a more complete view of Checker Kings In Action, that book page on Archive.org fills in the gaps:
https://archive.org/details/checkerking ... p/mode/2up
The diagram on the title page is to game 14, and reappears as diagram 6. "Problemist's Problem."
--George Hay