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Jim Loy's Checkers Pages:
These pages are dedicated to Leon H. Goans, who trained me in the
traditional manner of (1) defeating me game after game by mail, (2) offering
advice and encouragement, (3) losing to me now and then as his health
deteriorated, and (4) giving me much of his checkers library. I hope he's still
around and playing checkers. These pages are also dedicated to Richard L.
Fortman and Jerry Childers, who taught me a lot about checkers writing and
annotating.
In 2004, the ACF National
Go-As-You-Please Tournament and the National Three-Move Tournament
will be back to back in Vegas. Play in one or the other or both. See the
American Checker Federation
site for details.
NEW Free sample online: ACF Bulletin #306 (December 2003). Brought to
you by the ACF, Al Darrow, and Jim Loy. Under construction.
Free sample online: ACF
Bulletin #270 (December 1997). Brought to you by the ACF, and Jim Loy.
The most common injury in chess: Getting your king stuck in your eye,
when you doze off (checkers is much safer).
Contents:
LookSmart (a WWW directory) claims to
have looked at well over a million World Wide Web pages, in their efforts to
bring us the very best of them all! And they have awarded me their "Editor's
Choice Award" for my checkers pages. The Chinook pages have also won this
award. The ACF pages have also won a couple of awards.
Triplejump Checkers has voted these pages
as their Site of the Month, for March, 1999.
Miscellaneous articles:
Famous checkers games
Essence of Checkers: In my opinion, shots are the
essence of checkers. The games that I annotate are mostly spectacular. Of
course, I don't want anyone dozing off in the middle of one of my articles. But
mainly, I'm trying to pound into your head: These nice shots are
important. And you will overlook traps and shots every few moves, if
you don't keep that in mind.
Famous checkers games (19th Century, games involving World
Champions):
- Moorehead-J.Wyllie, 1841
- A.Anderson - J.Wyllie, 1847 Match, game
#2
- J. Wyllie - A. Anderson, 1847 Match, game
#5
- Some Anderson - Wyllie Errors
NEW
- J.Seton-A.Anderson
- J.Robertson-J.Wyllie
- J.Seton-J.Wyllie
- amateur-J.Wyllie
- R.Martins-H.Coltherd, 1849 match, game
#20
- A. Brown - R. Martins, 1854 match, game
#15
- J.Wyllie-A.Dewar, 1864
- J. Wyllie - C. F. Barker, 1873 Exhibition
NEW
- Hanhouser - J. Wyllie, c. 1874
NEW
- Amateur-R.Martins
- R.Martins-A.McKay
- J. Smith-R.Martins
- R. Martins - J. Wyllie, 1880 Match, game #5
NEW
- R. Martins - C. Adamson, 1884 match, game
19 NEW
- Schaefer-Yates
- R.Stewart-J.Moir
- R. Stewart - W. Gardner, Scotland v England
1899 NEW
This famous game is in my article on the In and Out
Shot: Wyllie-McGreevy.
Famous checkers games (19th Century, games involving other
players):
- J.Drummond-T.Hudson, 1858 match
- J.Way-H.Coltherd, 1858/9 match, game #10
- J.Birkenshaw-J.Bletcher, 1879 match, game
#10
- F. B. Hutchins - D. Dickson
NEW
- W.Campbell-J.Reed, 1886 match
- C.F.Barker-C.Hefter
- C. Hefter - Ready
- Mugridge-Hodges
- W.Moist-J.Smith
- T.Smith-J.Smith
- J.Smith-T.Smith
- G. Dick - M. C. Priest, 1883 match, game 5
NEW
- G. Jewitt - J. Moir, Scotland v England 1884
NEW
- J.Smith-J.Richmond, 1886 match, game #1
- W.Green-J.McCallen
- Swan-Acon
- friend-Alma
- D. Watson-G. Gibson NEW
- Chalmers-Bell
- J.Richards-Z.Nicholas
- friend-G.Johnson
- W.Strickland-C.Howell (and
T.Smith-J.Smith)
- Ballantyne-Buchanan, 1897 Scottish
Tournament
- W.Fleming-T.B.Renier
These famous games are in my article on Famous
Opening Shots: Heffner-Hill, Don-Amateur, Pringle-friend.
These famous games are in my article on Clearing To A
Draw: Home-Bryden, Reavelly-Reid
This famous game is in my article on the In and Out
Shot: Smith-friend.
Famous checkers games (with corrections):
These are famous games that should have ended differently. And, until
now, the annotators did not point this out.
Famous and other checkers games (20th Century):
- E. Johnson - W. G. Hill NEW
- A. Hynd - R. T. Ward, English Tourney 1904
NEW
- N.Banks-A.Jordan, 1911 Match, game #5
- C.Lawson - B.Case (& L.Ginsberg- B.Case),
1929 US National, Cedar Point
- W.Ryan-N.Banks, 2nd 1937 Blindfold Match
- S. Cohen-S. Levy, 1937 Match, game #36
- M. Tinsley - W. Ryan, 1946 U.S. National
Tournament (Ryan's Atomic Cook)
- W. F. Ryan - Walter Hellman, 1949 World
Championship Match, game #40
- T. Wiswell - M. Hopper, 1951 Match, game
#14 (my favorite game)
- W.R.Fraser - T.Wiswell, 1959-60 Match, game #17
(Fraser's Inferno)
- B. Martin - T. Wiswell
- E. Frazier - W. Hellman, 1967 World
Championship Match, game #6
- G. Davies - E. Lowder, 1973 3rd International
Match (with a correction)
- M. Tinsley - A. Long, 1981 World Championship
Match, Game #37 (Tinsley's Blockbuster Cook)
- P. Davis - D. Oldbury, 4th International
Match, 1983
- D. Hyde - E. Markusic, 4th International
Match, 1983
- D.Lafferty-M.Tinsley, 1987 World Championship
Match, game #6
- 1972-88 Inter-District (I-D) Tournament Games
NEW
- T.Sheehan-J.Reed, 1989 I-D
- R. L. Fortman - D. Cayton, 1990 World Mail
Championships NEW
- R. King - B. Lucas, 1995 English Open
- R. King-E. Lowder, 1995 WCM, game 9
- gst_dammer - R. L. Fortman, 2001
ItsYourTurn.com
- H. Meadows - C. Bideaux, Internet
2003
- Jesse Priest - gst_favian, ItsYourTurn.com
- ItsYourTurn.com USA vs. World 8/04
NEW
Easy Endings:
Expert Endings:
Some of the famous games, which I have annotated, involve educational
endings: Wyllie-Anderson, Coakley-Wyllie, Way-Coltherd,
Stewart-Moir, Brown-Martins, Brown-Asher,
N.Banks-A.Jordan, Wiswell-Hopper, Fraser's
Inferno, Tinsley's Blockbuster Cook,
Lafferty-Tinsley.
Openings (also see Middlegames, below):
Opening Index To My Checkers Pages
Middlegames (and openings and endings):
Also see Easy Checkers Problems and
Loy's Checker Problems (some are endings, most are
middlegame shots).
Quizzes:
- Octopus
- 26-17 Single Corner
- Laird and Lady
- Fife
- Dundee
- 26-17 Defiance
- Single Corner
- Laird and Lady
- 10-15 23-18 12-16
- Double Cross
- 12-16 22-18 16-20
- Dundee NEW
- 11-16 24-20 16-19 NEW
These are not casual games. Take your time on these. Each move must be
considered carefully. You will improve greatly, if you do this in your own
games.
Book Reviews:
Some of my own games & tournaments:
- J. Loy - P. Heringer, 2004 Dist. 9
Mail Ty. NEW
- J. Loy - Checker King, 1982
NEW
- W. Aiken - J. Loy, 1985 Dist. 9 Mail Ty.
NEW
- Six Unfinished Games
- Steve - Jim Loy, 2002 ItsYourTurn.com
- Jim Loy-SixPack, 2002 ItsYourTurn.com
- Jim Loy-Brassey, 2002 ItsYourTurn.com
- Jim Loy-Mightymove, 1991 USA Today, Tournament
PO#41
- Zappa-Jim Loy, 1991 USA Today, Ladder
- Jim Loy - Switcher, 1991 USA Today, Tournament
PO#91
- H.Meadows-J.Loy, 2001 Banks Master
Ladder
- J.Childers-J.Loy, 1999 I-D
- T.Sheehan - J.Loy, 1998 I-D
- Fax match - Chinook-J.Loy
- Tough game - Colossus-J.Loy
- A Sage Brilliancy?
- Almost a Brilliancy - Jim Loy - Ed King, 1991
I-D
- Nigel Proffitt - Jim Loy, 1985-86 Friendly USA
vs. Great Britain Match
- J.Loy-Sage
- Checkers-By-Mail Incidents
- I-D Checkers-by-Mail Tournaments
How I got started: I wrote a checker program, and as it got
better, so did I. Then I saw an ad, in Chess Life, about the ACF. And I joined
ACF and started playing checkers by mail (I was already a strong postal chess
player). After many years, I was beating national champs (not as often as they
beat me). Beating the best is addictive.
Other checkers links (players, organizations, & software
companies):
WWW links (some of these links are broken):
- American Checker
Federation
- English Draughts
Association
- Play checkers
with Chinook
- CSi
Checkers BBS (may require Internet Explorer)
- Thinks.com
Checkers/Draughts Books
- Alpine Electronics (World
leader in games fonts for Mac or Windows)
- Move Over by
Derek Oldbury
- Bob Newell's pages
- Checker Animations by
Hans L'Hoest (with large game archive)
-
Triplejump Checkers
-
ShadowCasters
One Stop Checkershop
- My Checker World.-
Howard Gain (photos)
- checkers programs:
-
Yahoo
Checkers (Draughts) page
- Checkers newsgroup: Usenet
newsgroup: alt.games.draughts (all) may work for you. Alternative:
Deja
News
- game servers which support checkers:
-
The Gaming Zone (play Bridge, Scrabble,
Backgammon, Spades, Go, Chess, Checkers, Hearts, Reversi, and other games)
-
GameColony.com (play Chess, Checkers,
Backgammon, Gin, Spades, Hearts)
-
Mind Sports Worldwide
-
Board Game Central
-
Its Your Turn (play Checkers,
Chess, Backgammon, etc., at three days or longer per move)
- GoldToken.com (play classic board games)
- VOG
(requires Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 or later)
- Pogo
- Playsite
- games.yahoo.com
- www.games.com
- Kurnik online games
- FlyOrDie -
Play Checkers Online
- Harry Meadows Checkers
Illusions (animations require Shockwave plugin)
- Checkerworld.com Al
Lyman's pages (under construction)
- Anthony
Perez's Writing and Checkers Page
- NorthWest Draughts
Federation in Ireland
- Jump
Games - Checkers page (a games directory)
- Mind Sports Organisation
Worldwide
- Kings
Zone
- John's
Checkers Material
- Checkers teams on the WWW:
- 3dchessboards.com
- Chess
Express - checkers pieces (the Crisloid ones are the good ones)
- PogoGame - Free
Online Game Resources
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Cookies per page. You can allow or disable cookies,
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The game servers keep your password and other legitimate info in cookies, to
speed up your playing session.
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