Starting Out in Checkers

by Richard Pask

Book Overview

A basic book on Checkers aimed at complete beginners and those Z99 a rudimentary knowledge of the game This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1857442636
• ISBN13: 9781857442632
• Release Date: July 2001
• Publisher: Everyman Chess
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.8" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

Great readable book..

This is the best book for beginning Checkers players. Well written, clear explanations, diagrams and well worth the money. Find it, buy it, use it!

Well Worth the Time and Money

Don't let the title of the book fool you. This book is packed with all the key elements needed to become quite effecient at playing checkers with the best of them. It gets right to the point, and reveals the strategy of the game in a clear, consisemanner. There are lots of examples, and you know from the content, that the game has been covered in a logical manner.Every player has learned, mostly through trial and error, which game postions cause them the most difficulty. Thanks to Richard Pask, the problems and solutions are presented in a format which is easy for you to comprehend and study. This has saved me many hours of trial and error when playing real games.I would recommend this book to anyone trying to improve thier game. The insight gained was invaluable. Checkers is truly a game of challenge, and this book just opened the door for me to be sitting in the winning seat more often.

A Complete Course of Study of High Quality

This book is the highest quality, best organized, and most thorough book on the market for beginner to intermediate study. It amounts to a complete course in checkers.The book contains material about all facets of the game, presented in careful order, with good illustrations and other excellent learning devices (such as easy-to-remember names for various game themes). The book offers a very rare combination of accessibility for casual browsing when time is limited, and material for serious study over a more extended period. But obviously to benefit the most, a serious study of the complete book is in order. Mastering this book, in fact, should put you well ahead of the average club player, and in a good position for study of more advanced literature.The book treats openings a bit lightly, keeping the rating from just quite reaching five stars. Four and a half stars would actually be a better call.If your library includes this book, Reinfeld's book, and Pike's two puzzle books, you have a great checkers collection at a very modest cost.

"Starting Out In Checkers" - a great book

I have completed a first reading of all the material in this book and I am now involved in studying it more deeply. Already I can say that this is a fantastic book, with everything you need to get started and to reach an advanced level if you are serious about wanting to get good at checkers.Some sample pages that I previously saw on the web were extremely unrepresentative of the book and they put me off buying it - but then I saw it in a bookstore - and I changed my mind!What I particularly like about the book is the way that all the major elements of the endgame, midgame and openings are dealt with in a very systematic, methodical and thorough way. Many more key situations are dealt with (and given memorable names) than I have seen in any other book or website.The explanations and also very clear and the examples well chosen. Study methods and the general approach to the game are also discussed as well as the technical details. Each chapter also has a useful summary.For the sake of this review, I looked hard for something to criticise - sorry, I couldn't find anything! Enjoy.