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Beyond Boardwalk and Park Place
Secrets Of Winning Roulette, 2nd Edition
by Marten Jensen
from Cardoza
101 Checker Puzzles MENSA
by Robert Pike
from Sterling
Hone your skills and analytic powers with 101 brilliant checker
strategies and come out ahead every time. Divided into beginning,
middle, and endgame tactics, each puzzle showcases a different board
layout, with a description of what's happening. Put yourself in the
player's place to work out what each game-clinching move could be.
There's a tip on every page, solutions, American Checker Federation
rules, a glossary, and a special fold-out checker board!
strategies and come out ahead every time. Divided into beginning,
middle, and endgame tactics, each puzzle showcases a different board
layout, with a description of what's happening. Put yourself in the
player's place to work out what each game-clinching move could be.
There's a tip on every page, solutions, American Checker Federation
rules, a glossary, and a special fold-out checker board!
Beginning Chess: How to Master the Fundamental Skills
by D. Brine Pritchard
from The Lyons Press
The perfect primer for novice chess players.
Starting Out in Checkers
by Richard Pask
from Everyman Chess
Checkers (known as Draughts in the UK) is perhaps the world's best known board game with its history being traced back more than 3,500 years.
The attraction of the game is that, despite the great simplicity of the rules, highly complex play can result.
In this user-friendly introduction to the game, Checkers grandmaster Richard Pask provides newcomers to the game with a thorough grounding in the essentials of play.
Play Winning Checkers (Mensa)
by Robert Pike
from Sterling
Champions at checkers, according to Sherlock Holmes creator Arthur Conan Doyle, learn everything needed to become great detectives. Become a winner! Learn to find alternative solutions to problems, break down complex situations, and keep control of your long-term strategy. Here's everything you need to know to leave your opponent gasping in surprise. Dozens of strategies take you, move by move, through many entire games. Start with the basic moves that put you on the winning track. See how to protect your pieces, get kings and use them well, and block your opponent. Fight for control of the center of the board, set up multiple jumps, and avoid the "dog hole." You even learn to play computer checkers, with move-by-move replays of great recent man-versus-machine contests, plus Internet sites where you can pit yourself against "Chinook," the world computer checkers champion. BIG BONUS: The back cover is a specially designed fold-out game board. Open it up, put down the pieces, and practice all the techniques and strategies as you go through the book. 128 pages, 78 b/w illus., 5 3/8 x 8 1/4.
The Basics Of Winning Roulette, 4th Edition (Basics of Winning)
by J. Edward Allen
from Cardoza
Winning Monopoly: A Complete Guide to Property Accumulation, Cash Flow Strategy, and Negotiating Techniques When Playing the Best-Selling Board Game
The Little Giant Encyclopedia of Checker Puzzles
by Robert Pike
from Sterling
Universally popular, the "mind sport" of checkers is one of the world's oldest board games, and one of the most elegantly structured. Although children can readily understand its most basic rules, on a higher level checkers can demand great depth of strategic thought. Put your skill to the test with these puzzles--all based on the standard American game. (Federation rules appear in their entirety.) Each is winningly solvable in no more than six and a half moves, and often less by the player who goes first. In numerous problems, the winner even seems at a serious disadvantage at the start. Quite a few of the solutions list alternative patterns of play that depend on the moves chosen by the player destined to lose.
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