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As a child growing up, I always thought about ordering this book, because it was offered as a small paperback booklet edition for only a quarter (and I quote): ". This booklet offer was a small flyer enclosed with my brand new HALSAM Checkers Set purchased by my grandfather, circa 1952. twenty-five cents in coin to cover cost, mailing, and handling. DO NOT SEND STAMPS." from HALSAM PRODUCTS CO., Box C, 4114 Ravenswood Ave., Chicago 13, ILL. I regret not having ordered the full-blown edition of this fine book sooner. Now my own grandkids will someday enjoy reading and learning Checkers from this "World Checker King," Millard Hopper, a classic that should be in every family's table top game library.
This is pretty interesting to study, and actually help to improve a beginner's game. Some of the checkers strategy actually begins to sink in if you keep reviewing it and following the advice.
This is a great book for the "serious" checker player. You can really show off with the moves in this book.
He used to beat me all the time at checkers, but it didn't bother me, because I was learning. Here's my story:My brother is a chess Master.but he also is an accomplished checker player. It was checkers that helped us become, what I consider, "best friends". Then I found this book. The tables turned.Now, as a lifetime member of the American Checkers Federation, I look at the 100+ books and can honestly say that this one is the best.
The strategies and tactics in this book are great; however, the writing style of the author is a little stiff and makes it a bit more difficult to follow through parts of the book.It should be noted that there are actually few good checkers book published at all. Chess is more complex, and therefore tomes upon tomes have been published about it. However, the relative simpleness of the game of checkers should then draw many more people to learn how to play this game.Becoming skilled at checkers, then, is one of the objectives the author has achieved (the book was first published in 1956 and is a revision of the work originally published by A.S. Barnes in 1941).This book, truly, is a classic.
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