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Some of the checkers strategy actually begins to sink in if you keep reviewing it and following the advice. This is pretty interesting to study, and actually help to improve a beginner's game.
Unfortunately it was never delivered, despite de pre-payment. I would like to have read the book to write a review.
You can really show off with the moves in this book. This is a great book for the "serious" checker player.
Then I found this book. He used to beat me all the time at checkers, but it didn't bother me, because I was learning. The tables turned.Now, as a lifetime member of the American Checkers Federation, I look at the 100+ books and can honestly say that this one is the best. Here's my story:My brother is a chess Master.but he also is an accomplished checker player. It was checkers that helped us become, what I consider, "best friends".
Barnes in 1941).This book, truly, is a classic. However, the relative simpleness of the game of checkers should then draw many more people to learn how to play this game.Becoming skilled at checkers, then, is one of the objectives the author has achieved (the book was first published in 1956 and is a revision of the work originally published by A.S. The strategies and tactics in this book are great; however, the writing style of the author is a little stiff and makes it a bit more difficult to follow through parts of the book.It should be noted that there are actually few good checkers book published at all. Chess is more complex, and therefore tomes upon tomes have been published about it.
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