Play along Marion Tinsley

Recorded on May 2, 2009 using a Flip Video camcorder.

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[EnderTKD]

Can you please tell me where i can buy checkerboards with numbers on the squares?

[checkercycle]

@EnderTKD You can get a number board at the American Checker Federation site. When you go there click on theACF store. You can also get the checkers there. If they don't have the number boards you can go to a arts and crafts store and get the numbers and put them on. If you want more info about checkers and boards you can go to "The Checker Maven" web site and find out more information. Thank you!

[meaning1]

I am loving these videos and learning. Been playing 2 months now and I am doing pretty well :)

[checkercycle]

@meaning1 Good to hear that you are doing well and learning. Keep up the good work and have fun! Thank you for your nice comment on the videos.

[thesofinho]

nice strategy, you could have just moved 14 to 10 and save time lol.. anyway thanks for your videos they are great !

[xxxIronLeexxx]

It was in the news that it was solved by his 12 piece data base, "son".

Just saying what I heard. If I'm wrong, great, I guess the game dodged a bullet. I don't think I'm wrong though. Every game if played perfectly, WILL draw.

And yeah I played live tournies...so? no more difficult than online. You gotta play at the right sites not against kids on msn.

Master rating was by far not easy to get. It took me 3 years of allot of play. Anyway thanks for the reply... I guess.

[callmedeathstroke]

furthermore,computers beat the top chess players with ease,does that stop people from playing each other and enjoying the game?no it doesnt,the same can be said of checkers,we as human beings do not live long enough to solve checkers,all of our games against each other will not be a draw,we play for the love of the game,not to be dismayed by computers,by the way there are over 555 billion possibilities in checkers(and thats from 10 pieces not 12)think u can memorize them all and play perfect?

[callmedeathstroke]

hey ironlee,i think u need to read a little more carefully,checkers is "solved"was the term coined,the quotation marks means it is weakly solved,Jonathan Schaefer himself said we do not have the computer power to solve it from the beginning of the game,only with 10 pieces on each side,go back and read it all over son.Furthermore a master rating online is sooooooooo easy to get,but can you get it in tournament play(face to face that is)?checkers is not dead,so u figured wrong,its still played

[checkercycle]

Hello Ironlee, You accomplished a lot in checkers and that is very good. I also play chess and i can understand that is another challenge for you. Your board sounds real nice. I like to thank you for your comments. i was amaze the other day when they said the highest rated chess player in the world is 19 years old. I will read more about Chinook and hope to spend more time to talk about this interesting subject. Thanks IronLee, have fun and keep up the good work.

[xxxIronLeexxx]

So since checkers was solved, if I continued to play for lets say another 3 years and was able to become a GM, all I could hope to do against the best player in the world (or Chinook) was draw every game. It would be a game of "who will make the first mistake in the line". With chess there is millions of more possibilities of moves in every position, it has not been solved, and likely never will be. Also in chess, if you lose a piece, unlike in checkers it does not mean an almost certain loss.