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Socrates: I forgot to mention that the Czech Checkers Championship will be going on too.

http://qt.ceskauniedamy.com/?i=10

October 10th-14th

Events:
Qualifying GAYP Tournament - Winner plays the Bajan, Ron King for the GAYP World Title.
Players from North America attending: Michael Holmes(USA), Jim Morrison(USA), Clayton Nash(USA,Reigning Junior World Champion) and Dr. Richard Beckwith(USA).

Womens Championship - Winner is declared Women's GAYP champion(or champion of everything?). Kim Willis(USA Women GAYP Champion) is the North American Entry.

Junior World Championships - 21 and younger championships. Winner is declared the Junior World Champion. Players from North American attending: Yunior Lopez(USA) and John Post(USA).

BRAINKING PLAYERS ATTENDING:
ID = sobek (Igor Keder,Czech Rep.)
ID = Globalarrows (Milan Sip,Czech Rep.)
---Those are the ones I know of---

The favorites for the Qualifying tournament are Jim Morrison(USA) Mustafa Durdyev(Turkey).
Favorites for the Junior Champions are Lukas Valenta(CzechRep), and Bashim Durdyev(Turkey)
Favorites for Womens Championship are Jan Mortimer(NewZealand) and Amangul Durdyev(Turkey).

CHECK WEBSITE FOR ALL INFORMATION
http://qt.ceskauniedamy.com/?i=10

http://brainking.com/en/ArchivedGame?g=1052668

This is by far my most enjoyed checkers game yet here at brainking. I played kelso line going down a man early. It is a loss for red but it reminds me of the fife man-down game. This game was drawn but look it over and comment. :)

fungame: Had it been an isolated incident I am sure Fencer would not have taken the decision he did. It was part of a ban on all public boards. Insofar as the discussion is limited to checkers everyone is welcome to post here. But this is not the forum to disparage other people no matter how much technical checker information is interspersed. Anyway Fencer decided on the ban..my post merely re-directed ET.

Purple: I don't know. I am generally not supporting Ed Trice, I don't like his behaviour, pride and certain other aspects of his personality, but here he only reacted after gooner's comment, which wasn't for sure meant as a start of some war, but one has right to defend himself. The line ET played was really too risky and unsound and his comment had some informative value though. But perhaps he could show some format and resign it finally without prolonging it forever.
So I don't see such reaction as a reason enough to be banned from checkers board, where he adds some informations about checkers here and there also. I never knew about "first" and "second position" before, now I heard at least, may be I can use it later to be better checkers player in case the game will get my interest.

gooner: No. Against all advice I took Ed off of ban and wrote "one more chance" in the board history for the Global Mods to review. It was a very gratuitous attack on another member and not the first time. It is out of my hands. This board must be for checkers discussions and not expanded to serve anyone's private agenda. This is for everybody.

Purple: My fault for bringing it up.

Fencer: Thanks.

Purple: Definitely. And since Grim Reaper obviously doesn't know how to behave, I'll make sure no more posts like this would appear in the future.

Please do your chess discussion on the chess board.

Grim Reaper: http://brainking.com/en/ArchivedGame?g=532067 this game I lost, because I lost time. You win only for me stupid mistake. In this game you haven´t never chance to win!!!

gooner:

The one where he "dared me" to play the Double Muzio against him? He was taunting me on the ChessTalk forum, and it spilled over to here. I should have just ignored his challenge, but it is not like me to back down from a fight.

I did not know he had the Chessbase CD with a refutation of the line he asked me to play. I gave up a Bishop and a Knight for just 2 pawns, very early in that game, and it is still going on.

To prove to him that I could really sacrifice a Knight and Bishop against him, I took him out of published play in our next game and I won that in 26 moves. And his rating was 2700 at the time, before the celing was removed. Since that time, he was rated 2706, and I won a second game against him in our "3 wins" match.

You should comment on this game, since it shows what a player can do "without help" against the sum of all of the accumulated chess knowledge in the world.

http://brainking.com/en/ArchivedGame?g=532067

Now you know the full story.

ScarletRose: Its going to tough in that chess game against Alex! A great achievement though.

ScarletRose: Thanks SR but Ed can again post here.

http://brainking.com/en/Tournaments?trg=11261&trnst=10&tp=7

Everyone join the October Checkers Open to start Oct. 1st. Rating 1500+ with unrated players. 5 players per section, 2 games per match.

Ferjo: The move is 14-10 but it is not white's loss, it's white's win.

Jumper: My job is also not to allow inappropriate discussions and Ed vs Fencer is clearly in that category. So this will have to be the last word on it.

Jumper: As an aside, Ed is an excellent checker player, therefore, his situation is important to the true checker student.

Purple: It is your job to knock the Flamers out. So there is no problem as I see it.

Jumper: I understand your feelings but the checker board needs to be limited to discussion about checkers. I hope Fencer and Ed come to an understanding but that cause would not be furthered here as Ed has too many antagonists and a flame war would develop. Sorry.

Purple: I do not waste time on General Chat, lets talk about it where someone cares about Ed and the games he is involved in.

Socrates:
Pretty run of the mill

Socrates:
14-10
And white (who have first move) going to loose!

Jumper: This should be discussed on General Chat if anywhere.

Say guys lets let bygones be bygones and get back to the fun on this site. Ed is interesting to have around.

Advanced Problem.

11-15 23-19
8-11 22-17
9-13 17-14
10x17 21x14
15-18 19-15
4-8 24-19
6-10 15x6
1x10x17 25-22
18x25 30x21x14
2-6 29-25
13-17 25-21
11-16? - Losing move. White to play to get shot. Position becomes a 4v4 game with white having strong winning position.

Message and post moves for the win if you see it.

www.draughts.dk

New site and new federation of the World Checkers/Draughts Federation (WCDF).

Secret video on the website too. Click on People page and then click on Don Oliphants picture and you will see a short video of him after he won the German Open.

The People page will also have pictures of many other champions :)

The School page has some good stuff on it too.

The co-winners are Ustica and Grim Reaper. Congrats.

John Baker: [Event ""]
[Date ""]
1. 11-15 22-17 2. 8-11 17-14 3. 10x17 21x14 4. 9x18 23x14 5. 15-18 26-23 6. 6-9 24-19 7.
11-16 25-21 8. 16-20 31-26 9. 20-24 27x20 10. 18x27 32x23 11. 9x27 19-15 *

Black is up by one piece and blatantly has stronger position.

In the White Dyke opening, ( 11-15 22-17; 8-11 17-14; 9-18 23-14; 10-17 21-14;) in this position i think the 15-18 attack (instead of the popular 12-16 or 4-8 attack) for black creates a more interesting game. The mistake here for white would be 26-23 (24-19 or 24-20 is the book move). The 15-18 black attack also makes it hard for white to make the "Dyke" ( the Dyke attack in the White Dyke opening would be be white putting pieces on 14, 18 and 23. This attack is obviously trying to weaken Black's double corner.

Socrates: I'm interested in knowing the answer to your problem. I've had my checker board sitting on the floor in my office all set up since you posted it. :-) Could you send me the solution in a message?

Stardust and 3334 are having a game on Goldtoken that began in 2001. They both play here on BK..but that game stands at 3/3 and makes for a remarkable factoid. Does anyone know of a longer internet checker game?

Here's a game I played a few days ago at a club.


1. 11-15 22-17 2. 8-11 17-14 3. 10x17 21x14 4. 9x18 23x14 5. 15-18 26-23
6. 6-9 24-19 7. 11-16 25-21 8. 16-20 31-26 *

The game is the White Dyke opening and I played black side side. Black has a winning move in this position. The problem is maybe above intermediate level but not advanced level.

Socrates: All draws are frustrating.

Purple: Published Play so far. I selected to stay away from the easier old 14th draw and went along with the harder variation.

Socrates: We have a fairly good one going.

John Baker: He can answer in a PM if he wants to but the Checkers DB is not the place for this discussion.

Grim Reaper: You invented Gothic Chess, right? So what happened that caused Fencer to have to get rid of it?

Invite me for games.

1. 11-15 22-18 2. 15x22 25x18 3. 8-11 29-25 4. 10-14 25-22 5. 11-16 24-20
6. 16-19 23x16 7. 14x23 26x19 *

Fun line - Much more stronger for the man-down side in this line rather than black doctor or white doctor's man-down side.

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bwildman: Its good to here from you butch

bwildman: Well, hello there Butch...long time no see. Hope all is well with you, and loved ones.

Purple: Click "Noteable Games" and then choose "First Worlds Championship Match" and you can see 30 animated games.

http://www.wylliedraughts.com/

CurrentRiver: and fair!
hiya Wanda!!
hiya gooner!

gooner: That sounds good to me gooner. Hey let's all be friendly.

gooner: That is what most of us are striving for.

This forum has never been more lively. Just a couple of points as my two cents worth. There seems to be to many people obsessed with what the other person is or isn't using in order to play a good game of draughts, without trying to state the obvious if you feel people are cheating don't play them or get involved which is what I have done. I have played everyone involved in this arguement and personally can't tell a cheater from a proper player, both Ed and Ustica have beaten me but I have also managed draws against them which I know I wouldn't have got against computers as I am not good enough. So lets take people for there word as seeing as this is the internet we don't really have much else to go on. BTW..Ed also offered to play me in Philly last year when I visited which suggests to me he can back up his words. The second point is we should all work together in order to improve our game rather than turn yet another board into a slanging match.

Just my point of view. :o)

Can we keep it friendly please?