Author: William F. Ryan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781616460785
Category : Games
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Champion checkers player William F. Ryan (1907-1954), known as "The Bronx Comet," provides strategies and tips for successful checkers game play in this informative book. Ryan won the American Championship in 1946, the World Championship in 1949, and the world's first blindfold tournament. Checkers is an easy game to learn, but holds its rightful place as one of the oldest and intellectually challenging board games in the world.
Tricks, Traps and Shots of the Checkerboard
Author: William F. Ryan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781616460785
Category : Games
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Champion checkers player William F. Ryan (1907-1954), known as "The Bronx Comet," provides strategies and tips for successful checkers game play in this informative book. Ryan won the American Championship in 1946, the World Championship in 1949, and the world's first blindfold tournament. Checkers is an easy game to learn, but holds its rightful place as one of the oldest and intellectually challenging board games in the world.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781616460785
Category : Games
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Champion checkers player William F. Ryan (1907-1954), known as "The Bronx Comet," provides strategies and tips for successful checkers game play in this informative book. Ryan won the American Championship in 1946, the World Championship in 1949, and the world's first blindfold tournament. Checkers is an easy game to learn, but holds its rightful place as one of the oldest and intellectually challenging board games in the world.
Tricks, Traps, and Shots of the Checkerboard
Author: William Francis Ryan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Board games
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Board games
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN:
Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1506
Book Description
Includes Part 1A: Books and Part 1B: Pamphlets, Serials and Contributions to Periodicals
Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN:
Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1506
Book Description
Includes Part 1A: Books and Part 1B: Pamphlets, Serials and Contributions to Periodicals
Play Winning Checkers
Author: Robert W. Pike
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780806937946
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Learn the skills and strategies to play the game of checkers like a champion.
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780806937946
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Learn the skills and strategies to play the game of checkers like a champion.
Win at Checkers
Author: Millard Hopper
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486137279
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Improve your game with tips from the former Unrestricted World Checker Champion! More than 100 detailed questions and answers discuss basic principles, standard openings and end games, and other maneuvers.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486137279
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Improve your game with tips from the former Unrestricted World Checker Champion! More than 100 detailed questions and answers discuss basic principles, standard openings and end games, and other maneuvers.
The Little Giant Encyclopedia of Checker Puzzles
Author: Robert W. Pike
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780806979755
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Universally popular, checkers is one of the world s oldest and most elegantly structured board games and on a high level, it can demand real strategic thought. Put your skill to the test with these puzzles all based on the Standard American game. (Federation rules appear in their entirety.) Each is solvable in no more than six-and-a-half moves, and sometimes, the winner even seems at a serious disadvantage at the start. Quite a few of the solutions list alternative patterns of play. "
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780806979755
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Universally popular, checkers is one of the world s oldest and most elegantly structured board games and on a high level, it can demand real strategic thought. Put your skill to the test with these puzzles all based on the Standard American game. (Federation rules appear in their entirety.) Each is solvable in no more than six-and-a-half moves, and sometimes, the winner even seems at a serious disadvantage at the start. Quite a few of the solutions list alternative patterns of play. "
Win at Checkers
Author: Millard Hopper
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486203638
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Improve your game with tips from the former Unrestricted World Checker Champion! Learn how to upgrade your approach, making checkers a game of skill rather than a casual diversion. More than 100 detailed questions and answers discuss basic principles, experts' shots and traps, standard openings and end games, and other maneuvers.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486203638
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Improve your game with tips from the former Unrestricted World Checker Champion! Learn how to upgrade your approach, making checkers a game of skill rather than a casual diversion. More than 100 detailed questions and answers discuss basic principles, experts' shots and traps, standard openings and end games, and other maneuvers.
Traps and Shots on Checkers
Author: John T. Denvir
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Checkers
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Checkers
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Chess Traps
Author: I. A. Horowitz
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0671210416
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
From Simon & Schuster, Chess Traps is I.A. Horowitz's exploration of chess' pitfalls and swindes—both how to set them and how to avoid them. This is a rich storehouse of Chess 'crimes.' Sometimes the villain is thwarted: more often he gets away with his nefarious deeds. But, in either event, the tales, and their telling, will prove to be instructive and vastly entertaining.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0671210416
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
From Simon & Schuster, Chess Traps is I.A. Horowitz's exploration of chess' pitfalls and swindes—both how to set them and how to avoid them. This is a rich storehouse of Chess 'crimes.' Sometimes the villain is thwarted: more often he gets away with his nefarious deeds. But, in either event, the tales, and their telling, will prove to be instructive and vastly entertaining.
Player Piano
Author: Kurt Vonnegut
Publisher: Dial Press
ISBN: 0307568083
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
“A funny, savage appraisal of a totally automated American society of the future.”—San Francisco Chronicle Kurt Vonnegut’s first novel spins the chilling tale of engineer Paul Proteus, who must find a way to live in a world dominated by a supercomputer and run completely by machines. Paul’s rebellion is vintage Vonnegut—wildly funny, deadly serious, and terrifyingly close to reality. Praise for Player Piano “An exuberant, crackling style . . . Vonnegut is a black humorist, fantasist and satirist, a man disposed to deep and comic reflection on the human dilemma.”—Life “His black logic . . . gives us something to laugh about and much to fear.”—The New York Times Book Review
Publisher: Dial Press
ISBN: 0307568083
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
“A funny, savage appraisal of a totally automated American society of the future.”—San Francisco Chronicle Kurt Vonnegut’s first novel spins the chilling tale of engineer Paul Proteus, who must find a way to live in a world dominated by a supercomputer and run completely by machines. Paul’s rebellion is vintage Vonnegut—wildly funny, deadly serious, and terrifyingly close to reality. Praise for Player Piano “An exuberant, crackling style . . . Vonnegut is a black humorist, fantasist and satirist, a man disposed to deep and comic reflection on the human dilemma.”—Life “His black logic . . . gives us something to laugh about and much to fear.”—The New York Times Book Review