Most people have the impression that checkers is a simple game, while chess is a horrifically complicated game. Actually, both games have extraordinary levels of deepness if you are inclined to pursue the craft at all. I’m posting a few examples of just how incredibly complex the game can be, and how extraordinarily sophisticated the analytical and theoretical levels really are, in the “simple” game of checkers — you know, the cracker or whiskey barrel variety of slow countrified game between two players too lazy to see if it’s rainin’, so they send the dog out and see if it comes back in wet.
https://youtu.be/SuQY1_fCVsA
Now that you have the basics down, let’s look at specific gameplay and strategies:
Here’s another example of just how deep the game of checkers can run:
And just one more for your elucidation…
…so that should put an end to the superstition that only morons play checkers and only smarties play chess. It just ain’t so, and thass a fact, Elmer!
I’m just now completing work on the two Buffalo Nickel checker sets and the 1968 Psychedelic Era checker set, plus my newest and latest offering, an Atlantean Checker Set, which I’ll introduce at the morning session.
See You At The Top!!!
gorby