sobek: and also, these games are not considered good play - they were games played in kurnik in a fast timer...so they should be a bit sloppy.

sobek: When would you like to meet in kurnik?

Grandmaestro: Here are some games I played - using some gambit opening lines:

Using the "Fife" man-down opening - A well known, strong gambit in English Checkers style.

1. 24-19 10-14 2. 22-18 11-16 3. 28-24 16-20 4. 19-15
{Fife Opening - Inviting the gambit.} 14-17 5. 21x14 7-10 6. 14x7 3x28
{Gambit accepted! This is a well known opening line used in English Checkers.} 7.
25-22 8-11 8. 29-25 9-13 {Black probably had better with 4-8.} 9. 18-14 2-7 10. 25-21
6-10 11. 23-18 10x17 12. 21x14 4-8 13. 26-23 12-16 14. 31-26 8-12 15. 23-19 16x23 16.
26x19 11-16 17. 27-23 20-24 18. 19-15 13-17 19. 22x13 24-27 20. 15-10 7-11 21. 10-7 27-31
22. 7-3 31-20 23. 14-9 5x14 24. 3x21 20-24 25. 21-3
{Now seems like a drawn game with a lot of potential for an interesting ending with the flying kings.}

And another game, with another known gambit used for English Checkers...

[Event ""]
[Date ""]
[Black ""]
[White ""]
[Result "*"]
1. 22-18 10-14 2. 25-22 12-16 3. 24-20 16-19 4. 23x16 14x23 5. 26x19 8-12 6. 31-26 6-10 7.
29-25 9-13 8. 27-24 4-8 {Red is man-down but has very strong positional advantage.}
9. 32-27 11-15 10. 26-23 8-11 11. 21-17 {Running out of moves!} 5-9 12. 23-18 9-14 13.
18x9 2-6 14. 9x2 1-6 15. 2x9 15-18 16. 9x23 10-15 17. 19x10 12x26 18. 30x23 7x30 19. 23-18
30-21 20. 20-16 11x20 21. 18-15 21-30 22. 27-23 30x1 23. 24-19 1x24 24. 28x19 20-24 25.
19-15 24-27 26. 15-10 27-31 27. 10-7 31x17 28. 7-2 17-22 29. 2-20 22-4 30. 20-24 4-25 31.
24-10 25-18 32. 10-21 18-8 33. 21-14 8-25 34. 14-21 25-15 35. 21-30 15-4 36. 30-19
{White maybe escapes for a draw - but it's worth a try for Black.} *

Now, a not-so popular line played in Checkers - but another very drawable and strong gambit....

[Event ""]
[Date ""]
[Black ""]
[White ""]
[Result "*"]
1. 22-18 12-16 2. 25-22 8-12 3. 29-25 10-14 4. 24-20 6-10 5. 18-15 10x19 6. 22-17 2-6 7.
17x10 6x15 8. 21-17 9-13 9. 17-14 1-6 10. 25-22 6-10 11. 30-25 10x17 12. 25-21 7-10 13.
21x7 3x10 14. 27-24 5-9 15. 22-18 15x22 16. 24x6 22-25 17. 31-27 9-14 18. 6-2 14-17 19. 2-7
17-21 20. 7-3 25-29 21. 3-10 21-25 22. 10-21 25-30 23. 23-19 30x23 24. 27x18 29x24 25.
28x19 16x23 26. 21-7 12-16 27. 7-21 23-26 28. 21-30 26-31
{And the game would eventually draw} *

All games in PDN format

Does anyone have some interesting and intriguing games they would like to share for the forum here.

Or perhaps some of you can share some opening theory or interesting openings in Czech draughts style. Czech is very intersting variant - a cross between English Checkers and Russian/Brazilian Draughts.

The Czech Draughts tournament in kurnik.org starts in 5 minutes.

:) Do you want to play some Czech Draughts at www.kurnik.org shinzen ?

1. Grandmaestro

2. Ferjo

3. Sobek

Is it possible to reset your own BKR(s) back to default "unrated" state.

If you encounter a cheater - avoid playing them as much as possible, and tell all your friends via private messages and let the usual tournament directors know so they know not include them in their tournaments.

It's impossible to prove 100% for a fact that a person is cheating in online games - so accusing someone publicly on a discussion board like this is worse than cheating in itself...what if you're wrong?