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Unlike Expert Millard F. Hopper's recent bestseller, How to Play Winning Checkers (6,000 copies sold to date), Willie Ryan's book is no primer. It is for the checkerists, new and veteran, who have pored over Dama literature dating back beyond Spain's Torquemada (1547). For the checkerist who can spot a three-for-two shot, Ryan's maze of checker lore is shimmering with clear-cut tactics based on the operations of the best generals in the game...
...Edwin F. Hunt, Assistant Attorney General of Tennessee: the U. S. Checkers championship; at Jamestown, N. Y. The tournament, in which 24 district champions entered, was played in rounds of four games each. Spectators were not permitted to speak. The rattle of notes being passed disturbed Checkerist Hunt. For the playoff, he and Nathaniel Rubin of Los Angeles retired to an upstairs bedroom in the Jamestown Hotel, played a round which lasted three days, contained eleven draws, one victory for Hunt...
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