Book Description
Learn the skills and strategies to play the game of checkers like a champion.
Author : Robert W. Pike
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 26,80 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9780806937946
Learn the skills and strategies to play the game of checkers like a champion.
Author : Mark Miller
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 10,56 MB
Release : 2015-04-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1626563950
As organizations grow in volume and complexity, the demands on leadership change. The same old moves won't cut it any more. In Chess Not Checkers, Mark Miller tells the story of Blake Brown, newly appointed CEO of a company troubled by poor performance and low morale. Nothing Blake learned from his previous roles seems to help him deal with the issues he now faces. The problem, his new mentor points out, is Blake is playing the wrong game. The early days of an organization are like checkers: a quickly played game with mostly interchangeable pieces. Everybody, the leader included, does a little bit of everything; the pace is frenetic. But as the organization expands, you can't just keep jumping from activity to activity. You have to think strategically, plan ahead, and leverage every employee's specific talents—that's chess. Leaders who continue to play checkers when the name of the game is chess lose. On his journey, Blake learns four essential strategies from the game of chess that transform his leadership and his organization. The result: unprecedented performance!
Author : Millard Hopper
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 46,13 MB
Release : 2012-04-30
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 0486137279
Improve your game with tips from the former Unrestricted World Checker Champion! More than 100 detailed questions and answers discuss basic principles, standard openings and end games, and other maneuvers.
Author : Fred Reinfeld
Publisher :
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 48,48 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9780879800680
Author : Carol Lynch Williams
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 40,86 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781423600114
Directions for twenty-four games that can be played on a checkerboard.
Author : Oliver Roeder
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 33,53 MB
Release : 2022-01-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1324003782
A group biography of seven enduring and beloved games, and the story of why—and how—we play them. Checkers, backgammon, chess, and Go. Poker, Scrabble, and bridge. These seven games, ancient and modern, fascinate millions of people worldwide. In Seven Games, Oliver Roeder charts their origins and historical importance, the delightful arcana of their rules, and the ways their design makes them pleasurable. Roeder introduces thrilling competitors, such as evangelical minister Marion Tinsley, who across forty years lost only three games of checkers; Shusai, the Master, the last Go champion of imperial Japan, defending tradition against “modern rationalism”; and an IBM engineer who created a backgammon program so capable at self-learning that NASA used it on the space shuttle. He delves into the history and lore of each game: backgammon boards in ancient Egypt, the Indian origins of chess, how certain shells from a particular beach in Japan make the finest white Go stones. Beyond the cultural and personal stories, Roeder explores why games, seemingly trivial pastimes, speak so deeply to the human soul. He introduces an early philosopher of games, the aptly named Bernard Suits, and visits an Oxford cosmologist who has perfected a computer that can effectively play bridge, a game as complicated as human language itself. Throughout, Roeder tells the compelling story of how humans, pursuing scientific glory and competitive advantage, have invented AI programs better than any human player, and what that means for the games—and for us. Funny, fascinating, and profound, Seven Games is a story of obsession, psychology, history, and how play makes us human.
Author : Jenna Haveman
Publisher : Word Alive Press
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 37,89 MB
Release : 2020-01-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1486618634
“Do you know how to play checkers?” Follow the story of Russell as he embarks on a journey around the world to find someone who can help him learn how to play checkers. To what lengths with Russell go? Who will he meet along the way, and will he find someone who can help? Use your imagination and come along for the ride!
Author : Kenneth M Grover
Publisher :
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 42,76 MB
Release : 2016-10-20
Category : Games
ISBN : 9784871877473
This is regarded as one of the best books for the average player ever written. This modern textbook pays particular attention to the many problems confronting the average player. Besides an extensive game collection that shows the best restrictive lines for Black and White (thus reducing study to a minimum) it includes a new method for studying the Mid-Game. This is an enlightening discussion of the major midgame formations and the art of transportation. Many model three move games as played by America's foremost masters with many new lines of play. (Three move restriction is played by all the experts and is fully explained.) Many brilliant endgame themes every player should know. 100 selected problems by America's foremost composers. Latest revised rules for match and tourney play. And numerous other features of interest to all grades of players. The authors were two of Americas foremost Checkerists. Both won numerous titles and important games during their brilliant and checkered careers. - They start the reader off "at scratch" and with patience and understanding take him along the road that ultimately leads to the goal of practically every checker player - the expert class.
Author : Richard Pask
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 19,16 MB
Release : 2018-06-11
Category :
ISBN : 9781986847070
Think checkers is a simple game? Are you ready to discover the incredibly deep inner game of checkers?Want to play checkers at a level you've never even dreamed of?Checkers for the Novice is definitive modern guide for the beginning Anglo-American checkers/draughts player who wishes to reach the upper 1% of the playing population and is willing to do the necessary study and training. Starting with notation and basic rules, the book takes the ambitious novice through elementary tactics and strategy, basic endgames, and a solid freestyle opening repertoire. After mastering this book a player will be a fledgling expert and well prepared for advanced study.Author Richard Pask is a grandmaster with a gift for teaching and this book is clear, lucid, and thorough. Prepare to be amazed at what a deep game checkers truly is --- and how well you're going to be playing it.
Author : Vladimir M. Kaplan
Publisher :
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 20,51 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Checkers
ISBN :