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He is widely considered to be the greatest checkers player ever. [1] Tinsley was world champion from 1955–1958 and from 1975–1991 and never lost a world championship match. He lost only seven games (two of them to the Chinook computer program , one of them while competing drunk and one in a simultaneous exhibition ) [ 2 ] from 1950 until ...
Checkers is played by two opponents on opposite sides of the game board. One player has dark pieces (usually black); the other has light pieces (usually white or red). The darker color moves first, then players alternate turns. A player cannot move the opponent's pieces. A move consists of moving a piece forward to an adjacent unoccupied square.
English draughts (British English) or checkers (American English), also called straight checkers or simply draughts, [note 1] is a form of the strategy board game checkers (or draughts). It is played on an 8×8 checkerboard with 12 pieces per side.
Checkers. The best board game ever, Checkers, is here. Make your move, red or black, and king me! By Masque Publishing
Checkers, also called Draughts or "straight checkers", is a form of the checkers board game played on an 8x8 board with 12 pieces on each side that may only initially move and capture diagonally ...
Today's Game of the Day is good ol' Checkers. You know the rules: you can only move diagonally and you can't move backwards. If you're in position to jump over an opponent's piece, you have to do it.
Chinook is a computer program that plays checkers (also known as draughts). It was developed between the years 1989 to 2007 at the University of Alberta, by a team led by Jonathan Schaeffer and consisting of Rob Lake, Paul Lu, Martin Bryant, and Norman Treloar.
James Ferrie – A World Checkers/Draughts Champion [11] James Wyllie; Jan Mortimer; Jannes van der Wal; Jean Marc Ndjofang [16] John Sadiek [17] Karen van Lith [18] Leopold Sekongo [19] Li Tchoan King [20] Lindus Edwards; Lourival Mendes França; Lubabalo Kondlo [21] [22] Lukas Valenta [11] Marcel Deslauriers; Future Is Near [23]