Happy Birthday Chief. A FINE day to turn 29! :o)

Deepest thanks. Usurper soon I will know the feeling of turning 29 three times. LOL

Happy Birthday Chief!

TNP!!

A very happy birthday to our wonderful Chief! May you be blessed with many many more!! Chief,you're the Best (even if we still haven't found a volunteer to jump out of your cake!)
p.s. I will have a drink for you...Cocktail hour is upoun us! ;-) LOL
TNP!! YFA!

Happy Birthday Chief!!!!! :O)

hi everybody if anybody wants to play with me a game of checkers you can't play me here you have to go to www.itsyourturn.com and sign up then give me your username the when you like that website just leave this website and go to the better one the i one i have just provided to you people!!!!!!!!!

I'd do it but you're too unbeatable. Wait, just looked at your games. My bad. You must be referring to your opponents. LOL

New to the site
How long does it take to get used to using pawns?
and light pc's having the 1st move:)
I have used pennies,bottle caps and washers, but never chess pc's:)
Ken

It soon becomes so second nature you say "check-mate" at the end of every game. lol

As the number of checker players on the site increases Fencer may move the "checker graphics" higher up on his "to do" list. A certain number of reminders never hurts but too many and it becomes annoying nagging. We are trying to hit the correct balance. :o)

Happy belated birthday to you
Happy belated birthday to you
Haaaapppyyy beeelateeed Birrrrrthday, dear Chief
Happy belated birthday to you.

Now after that beautiful song you can all weep with me for missing the Chief's birthday.

For anyone interested in joining a tourney for checkers or any variation of checkers feel free o join "We're Off And Running" open to all member and rating levels :)

Have a great day :)

I have joined the Checkers section. I encourage others to do the same.

If you like checkers you will like these links.

q=hello everyone :) i have a tourney set up and checkers is on the list...We're Off and Running :) minimum 4 players for tourney to start...come one and all open to all members :)

count me in thanks

Anyone who has played and beaten the Chinook computer has to be distressed that the Wall of Honor hasn't been updated in over 18 months. So many of us are still waiting for our plaques. Does this keep you up at nights? LOL. Still it's irksome.

What is Chinook computer?

Chinook has a webpage where their computer checker program offers games against the public. They have it set for 3 levels of difficulty. It is EXTREMELY hard to beat. The URL to play it is on this DB several posts back but I will look it up and post it here again. Chinook was one of the original checker programs and has a perfect 8 piece endgame database knowledge. I played it nearly 100 times to get 2 wins and about 8 or 9 draws.

http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~chinook/

Thank you :-)

I just recieved an e-mail from Mac Banks who just got back from Las Vegas offering to lend us his expertise in setting up a Ladder. For those of you who know checkers it would be like Bill Gates offering help in setting up a company. He left me his phone number to call. The purpose would be to provide a challenge for our elite checker players (or those who aspire to be) to gain recognition other than with the BKR. It would be open to established players Brainknight and up. Unless the whole idea has too many flaws and needs to be aborted early my plan is to finalize the entire package and then present it to Fencer for a thumbs up or thumbs down. Is there any interest in this? Ed also has fairly extensive knowledge of Ladder play so his insights would be welcome.

That would be great, I'm only familiar with it from the links you've sent me but I think it would be a fantastic way for this site to get some recognition. Super idea!

Try this link, Fencer:

Chinook Website

CaoZ of the Killing machine has just posted two amazing wins over the Chinook Computor Program. This is NOT easy. Try it yourself. LOL. Congrats CaoZ. If anyone else does this feel free to post it here and, if possible, a list of the moves you made.

As there does not appear to be much interest in a Ladder here I did not make that phone call to Mac Banks. If, in the future, people want to revive the idea we can always try again. Thanks.

Does anybody know if there is a draw by repetition in checkers? I have a position that has now been repeated six times.

Yes!! Give the game number to Fencer and he will declare a draw. You must offer your opponent a draw first. It is not automatic however.

Re' your message about someone beating a Chinook computer program, I'm not into computer programs of any type for any reason, but I just forced a draw with an 11 year old middle school student from Crankhandle, Montana. Is that good enough for some comment ?

Congrats. Some 11 yr olds are tough. Do you remember Bobby Fisher beating Big Blue (IBM) in chess a few decades back? This is the same thing. Man over machine. Quite an accomplishment.

Thanks Ed. This will keep me and other checker lovers busy for awhile.

4th Position a pain in the ass compared to the others. Will check this out.

My wetv gets the link as a larger than screen board that you have to scroll to see position. Was it black to move? I will start at the beginning and see what I'm doing wrong.

I have it set up on a checkerboard without benefit of program and am trying to work my way through it with my naked eyes. This is tough but I'm seeing it. I think. Good problem, thanks.

gothic you r position is draw is no way can black can win,,

well this is YOUR solution!! tell me only a stupid players play 31-26 why white is got to move 31-26?? its a lose move..

if you whant i give you the solution to draw..

20-16 its the draw move..:)

I say it is a draw which means nothng but when Usurper and Ustica say it's a draw it means a LOT!!!

sure..

We are more than willing to learn.

if you move 27-32 my move is 20-16

Jack has volunteered