Win at Checkers (eBook)

Millard Hopper (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2012
144 Seiten
Dover Publications (Verlag)
978-0-486-13727-8 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

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Improve your game or learn checkers from Millard Hopper, the Unrestricted Checker Champion of the World. Here is a book that will appeal to all your questions — often even before you ask them — and impart many of the championship secrets of a perennially popular recreation.The book actually presents, in simple terms, a lifetime of checker experience by one of the greatest players of all time. Individual chapters discuss the basic principles of the game, experts' shots and traps, how the beginner loses, standard openings, locating your best move, the end game, opening "e;blitzkrieg"e; moves, ways to draw when you are one man less than your opponent, two and three-move restrictions, and the standard rules of checkers. In other words, here is a book that treats checkers as a game of skill, not just as the casual recreation or "e;kid's"e; game most people feel it is.Your questions are anticipated in more than 100 detailed questions and answers about both specific situations and general principles. A new Appendix, prepared specifically for this edition by the author, lists match, and tournament scores of recent years.

Inhalt

INTRODUCTIONI A REVIEW OF THE GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF THE GAMEII WHAT ARE THE EXPERTS' SHOTS AND TRAPS?III HOW THE BEGINNER LOSESIV WHAT ARE THE STANDARD OPENINGS OF CHECKERS?V HOW CAN YOU LOCATE YOUR BEST MOVE?VI CHECKER BRAIN TEASERSVII THE END GAMEVIII "SOME OPENING "BLITZKRIEGS"IX WAYS TO DRAW WITH A MAN DOWNX "WHAT ARE THE "TWO" AND "THREE-MOVE" RESTRICTIONS?"XI FINAL ADVICE TO THE STUDENTXII "THE STANDARD LAWS OF CHECKERS"INDEX

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.4.2012
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 140 x 140 mm
• Gewicht: 154 g
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Spielen / Raten
• Themenwelt: Kinder- / Jugendbuch ► Spielen / Lernen ► Abenteuer / Spielgeschichten
• Schlagworte: Beginner • books on beginners • books on cardboard boxes • books on champions • books on checker boards • books on chesses • books on computer analysis • books on cubes • books on diagrams • books on endgames • books on grandkids • books on grandsons • books on grooves • books on intermediate levels • books on openings • books on plastics • books on positions • books on reinfeld • books on storages • books on strategies • books on tactics • books on tournaments • books on traps • books on variations • books on woods • cardboard box • Champion • checker board • Chess • Computer Analysis • corrugated cardboard • Cube • diagram • Double • doubling • Durable • Endgame • grandkids • Grandson • Grooves • inexpensive • intermediate level • Openings • Plastic • play checkers • playing checkers • Positions • Reinfeld • Storage • Strategy • STURDY • Tactics • Tournaments • traps • Variations • Wood • wooden board
• ISBN-10: 0-486-13727-9 / 0486137279
• ISBN-13: 978-0-486-13727-8 / 9780486137278